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If you say "It's a proven fact that Christians of all ages have been prone to violence and deceit", I will demand that you actually have some verifiable source to back this up.

So you wrote "Studies have shone". You took it back and you apologized for it, but apparently without getting the idea that what you wrote wasn't bad because I happened to call you on it - it's bad because claiming things to be true, despite you knowing that they're not true, is bad. And that's what makes it hard to trust what you write, not the lack of "IMO".
There you go! Using the same words that you give, I hope that this meets with your approvalÂ….NOT!!!!!!!!!

(IMO) I suspect that you are just full of yourself?
Please excuse me while I go take a Caelia!
I don't mean that in a bad way, just a nagging thingy (IMO)

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The similarity between (some parts of) religions and (some parts of) science could perhaps be that they try to explain the same things. Like origin. The fact that they have different explanations for the same thing causes some people to be upset, and some other people to accept both answers for what they are - different. Religion isn't (or usually isn't) trying to explain origin in a way that would be helpful to an archeologist. Science isn't trying to explain *why* we are here as much as *how* we came here.

People who think of science as their religion is only slightly less scary than people who think of religion as science. I think both groups try to fill two differently shaped holes with one block and finding that it doesn't quite fit in both.

I can agree with your opinion about this. but some did, and still do use the same brick, over, and over (IMO)
Example Asimove
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I am constantly hearing, from people who accept the Bible more or less literally, that the Higher Criticism has been outmoded and discredited, but I don't believe that at all. This is just something that people say who insist on clinging to the literal truth of the Bible. The Higher Criticism, which in the nineteenth century, for example, tried to show that the first few books of the Bible contained several strains that could be identified and separated. I think is as valid today as it ever was. Fundamentally, there is a J-document and a P-document in the early chapters of Genesis and an E-document later on. I have no doubt that as one continues to investigate these things one constantly learns and raises new questions.