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jeremygordonauthor t1_j8tmrwo wrote

Adding insult to injury, I don't think you could get more Darwinian than this Darwin award

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HeadRequirement3335 t1_j8tna45 wrote

Lool it's up there with the flat earth rocket guy

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Garlicholywater t1_j8tssx6 wrote

Flat earth rocket guy was low-key kind of awesome. Taught himself how to build rockets and had a few successful launches. No rocket program has ever had a 100% success rate. Unfortunately he also suspected that the world was flat.

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kashmir1974 t1_j8u94e4 wrote

I think he was gaming the flat earthers for funding. He just wanted to do rockets and found a bunch of gullible fools to bankroll him.

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HeadRequirement3335 t1_j8tt4a1 wrote

True and somehow discivered there is an other side of rock bottom in the process. He should have been a hollow earther thinking about it

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thefoodiedentist t1_j8tqpr9 wrote

Religion and science often tend to be at odds.

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TucuReborn t1_j8xbx8e wrote

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Some religious people are extremely rigorous with science and knowledge. Historically, a lot of major scientists and academics were religious in some manner. Many got into science to "understand the heavens" so to speak.

And, for many religious people who actually study religion(which is academic in it's own right), they understand where myth, legend, and codified religious beliefs are in the texts and follow them accordingly.

For example, most Christian theologists know that creation myths exist to explain the world to early societies and should be taken with a pile of salt, so Genesis is seen less as "historical" and more "metaphorical" or just culturally relevant.

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