http://anadder.com/creationist-fossil-attack Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:28:52 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://anadder.com/creationist-fossil-attack/comment-page-1#comment-24259 Not A Religion? | Young Australian Skeptics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:07:24 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=2194#comment-24259 [...] But the most annoying thing to me is the legalistic nature of the argument. The argument implies that there is some inherent, “true”, formal definition of religion and that’s all that matters. To the person making the argument, the definition can not change because of history or consensus; and is certainly not dependent on social context. This is similar to creationists believing that species must be fixed by definition, thereby ruling out any transitional fossils in principle. [...] [...] But the most annoying thing to me is the legalistic nature of the argument. The argument implies that there is some inherent, “true”, formal definition of religion and that’s all that matters. To the person making the argument, the definition can not change because of history or consensus; and is certainly not dependent on social context. This is similar to creationists believing that species must be fixed by definition, thereby ruling out any transitional fossils in principle. [...]

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