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4205575 No.4205575 [Reply] [Original]

How do the militant atheists of /sci/ feel knowing that most of the greatest minds of all time had a spiritual outlook on life?

>> No.4205577

>>4205575

you can have a spiritual outlook and not lobotomize yourself by going fullretared religious mode.

there's a diff

>> No.4205580
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4205580

>>4205577

Not according to people like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. To them, anything which is not based is science is detrimental to society.

>> No.4205582

>>4205580

I subscribe to that point of view.

superstition breeds ignorance, it holds us all back.

>> No.4205585

>>4205580


dawkins is philosophically immature and I doubt Harris does that, he's a proponent of the buddhist spiritual outlook on many things

it all depends on what u mean by spiritual outlook and what pop culture figures think about it isn't relevant, what matters is what you think about it

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>>4205582
>superstition breeds ignorance, it holds us all back.

Then, [spoilers]pray[/spoilers] tell, how did people like Einstein and Schrödinger believe in "superstitious" spirituality, while still contributing some of the greatest scientific advancements in history?

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>>4205575

Not true.

>> No.4205599

>>4205587

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_excluded_middle