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Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution

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Mich-again2/17/2009 7:02:15 pm PST

re: #148 Cognito

Just like theologians outstep their authority when they make claims about science, so scientists do when they make claims about religion.

Sounds vaguely similar to this..

“Whenever… preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science.” —Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815. ME 14:281