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_Enkidu_
Title: Zen Badger
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Occam's Razor is a much better rule to live by than any number of "Commandments" or other dogma.
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Science isn't false or true, it's just a way of learning things. All 'facts' discovered by science are always only conditionally true, but that's still a hell of a lot better than made up on the spot.
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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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Occam's Razor is a much better rule to live by than any number of "Commandments" or other dogma.
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Phrenology was once accepted science.  Dont get me wrong, science is our paradigm model for knowledge. I am all for knowledge. However logic has its limitations.
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Sin_of_Onin
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Is not believing in anything logical?
Include moral beliefs.
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NuEM
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What do higher powers believe in? 
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Logic is a tool. It can only do what you are capable of using it to do.
However, logic is not a reason. Existence isn't trying to make sense. We are trying to make sense of existence.
Why?
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Sin_of_Onin
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NuEM posted:
What do higher powers believe in?
If you are the Alpha and the Omega you don't have to worry about logic.
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
Is not believing in anything logical?
If you concede yourself to be nothing but part of the animal kingdom, nothing higher nor lower, yet acknowledge you possess a consciousness entirely above and beyond that of any other creature on earth, I would call that illogical.
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_Enkidu_
Title: Zen Badger
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The nice thing about science is it corrects for the limitations of other kinds of knowledge. The only limits on science are the ontological limits placed on us, but those limits are redefined on a daily basis.
Science can define morality just as well as any any other epistemological appeal, only it would be a much closer approximation of the truth in the matter.
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But why bother to define anything?
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Sin_of_Onin
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Someone is dodging the question.
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