Originally Posted by GregoryRasputin
Sorry
@pbanj
, i reopened as, people are remaining mature about the subject, let us not become Nazi's and close threads because we think they have become "to hot to handle".
@AugustSKY
, you are forgetting the Christian crusades, thousands of non Christians masacared in the name of the church, you are forgetting the hundreds, if not thousands of females deemed to be witches and burned at the stake by the church.
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I think this might be a first...a closed thread re-opened!!!
Originally Posted by Annelies
I still say a fact is a widely agreed upon opinion
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Science has no facts, only theories. They say the sun is a radioactive fireball...but that is just a theory...if someone comes along and proves them wrong, they will have a new theory.
Originally Posted by lebofly
Looks like all the scientists have left this thread
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No, I was just sleeping.
Originally Posted by Annelies
I think we all can remember the Black Death of Europe which took place between 1348 and 1350. Then, it was a fact that they were being punished by God. Now it's a fact that the rats carried the disease. Then later it will be a fact that ?????.
Facts are supposed to be undeniable yet they change. Like opinions.
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Actually, they thought that the entire world was being punished because one particular queen had an affair...but it wasn't a fact or even a scientific theory because there wasn't a hint of proof (or even logic) to this...that particular queen never even got the black death; she died of cancer. In reality, the main cause of the black death was lack of bathing...and bathing was almost completely eliminated for 1200 years by the prohibitions against public nudity by the various churches.