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trainman2001
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I take him as an idiot savant. He has mastered one field, but is simply incapable of transferring that to a broader context. Religion is often at odds with observable science. At best, it describes a sequence of events. At worst it has one suspend all belief in what is known, observable or deducible. The more that is understood about natural law, the more religion has to recede into the background. The difficulty is that human's have the "tribal" gene. Many humans need a sense of belonging to something large than the individual. If it wasn't organized religion, it's the state that sits in as a proxy. At the rate we're going, it will be millennia (at least) for humans to "grow out of" the need to blame unseen forces for their lives, troubles, successes and fears. Humans abhor randomness. We are incapable of accepting that stuff happens all the time. Hurricane Sandy was blamed by Pat Robertson on the gays in NJ. I wonder who he's going to blame for the 1,000 year flood in SC. Will the governor of that state, Nicki Hally, maybe think that climate change may actually be affecting her state? We'll see.