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Atheists & Agnostics

MineralMan

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5. Nobody has a need for that hypothesis.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Tue Jan 23, 2018, 10:25 AM

Jan 2018

Education and research are the answers. Eventually. Until we know the answers, we simply have not discovered them yet. As we have seen, we will, though, in time.

When we answer, "I do not know," that is optimism speaking. "I do not know" is simply yet another thing to discover. "God did it" is a cheap excuse for a lack of curiosity.

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