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Those 3 million people would also bare witness that the earth was flat.

Do you generally converse as if you know everything or just on these boards? I'm not going to profess to be an expert on who was elderly in the 1800's, but I am sure it was a lot rarer than it is now. in 1900 for example, the no. of over 65's was around 4% of the population, by 2000 it was 12%...

The Fermi Paradox.

5% - not according to the figures you quoted. Elderly people within the general population in the 1800's was a rarity. Statistics also show that if your born in December you're more likely to become a dentist. Go figure.

Not a lot of love lost between Catholics and Protestants through the ages though is there? I'd have said 'hate' isn't too strong a word to describe the relationship for at least 400 years. Both believe in Jesus, in the gospels, just not the details.

Are protestants also haters then as they have always contested that Jesus never did establish the papacy or made Peter head of it. They are Christians like yourself.

So basically only 3.7% of the population were over 60 and only 0.3% of the population were over 80. That is not a lot of elderly to look after. In another way for every 27 people, 1 was over 60. It is likely that many people didn't know anyone over 60. Far from disproving the poster your were...

This quote perhaps explains why 163 people know for a fact that God either exists or doesn't: The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. — Stephen Weinberg

Science has put more people 6ft under than religion? Are you sure about that? Have a think about how many lives science has saved, then how many religious wars and conflicts there has been and continues to be on this planet. If it wasn't for religion right now, we would probably be living on a...

No. You may find the use of a term 'scientific fact' in that a law has been tested to the point it is generally accepted. However, it is never truly a fact. For 200 years Newton's Laws were held as scientific facts, until Einstein came along.

What you've described is ignorance? Many human beings strive to climb the highest mountains, dive the deepest oceans, look to the far reaches of the universe, because they are driven, curious and intelligent. Whether something can be known or achieved is irrelevant, the search for knowledge is...

Has anyone ever claimed that a scientific theory is anything but a theory by man? That's why there are no factual claims in science, each theory is put out there ready to be challenged. Challenge a religious doctrine and you end up with a war.

That's the easy part though. Produce a theory which doesn't explain what happens before the theory, and the 'unknown' is put down to some kind of deity. Lemaitre's theories were sound, even to Einstein, but to them square them with a creator was at odds with everything that led Lemaitre to get...

It was an intentionally loaded use of the word. I was referring to an empirical based revelation based on actual observation, experiment, data and conjecture. You don't need to have faith in that case. By having faith in something that can never be observed or recorded, is by definition a...

Personally I respect your choice, but I just don't understand how a young person feels the need to believe in religion, I really don't get it. I'm fascinated by science, fiction, film, and the rich creativity that human beings create everyday. I really have no need of a 2000 year old doctrine...

The craziest thing in this debate is that 46.41% (142 people) know for a FACT either way something that is unknowable!

This is one of the oddest statements made so far, you are referring to atheists like they are a religious group, how can a definition of a person that doesn't believe in one thing, leave them all believing the same thing? I've never heard anyone suggest consciousness comes from sea bacteria? Or...

This is essentially the problem with all religion, in that any passage can be interpreted in any number of ways, hence all religions have various factions. Christianity has some 33,000 denominations, each with their own take on the Bible.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra.