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Thursday, March 25th, 2010 05:26 pm (UTC)
To expand on that a little, it is one thing to hold personal belief in something intangible and unmeasurable (at least by any known means), and to be guided by that belief, particularly if one makes a serious effort to reconcile belief with tangible reality when there is the appearance of conflict between the two. It is quite another to believe in some perfectly tangible and measurable theory about the real physical world that is tangibly, measurably, demonstrably, provably utterly and completely false, and to dismiss its utter inconsistency with almost the entire body of physical science over the past two thousand years by quite unabashedly concluding asserting, with no supporting evidence or logic whatsoever, that the entire last two thousand years of physical science must simply be completely wrong.

The former is worthy of respect; the latter, of amusement and polite ridicule.

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