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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on February 19, 2021, 02:11:56 PM

Title: Deconstructing religion fuels the anti-science movement
Post by: rcjordan on February 19, 2021, 02:11:56 PM
New research finds that St James' bones aren't his after all - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/st-james-bones

US museum Dead Sea Scroll collection found to be fakes - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51916849
Title: Re: Deconstructing religion fuels the anti-science movement
Post by: ergophobe on February 19, 2021, 03:35:14 PM
Back in the sixteenth century John Calvin wrote in his treatise on relics that if you gathered together al the shards of the true cross, you would have enough wood to float a navy.

500 years of such criticism and yet the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella is more popular than ever.