"Americans have deep spiritual beliefs that total solar eclipses are either very bad omens and or bring a time of transition and rebirth."
Deep beliefs prove nothing. Forum: Recovery Board
I still think my point stands, however. Scientists may be dogmatic, but the fault lies in them, not in science or the scientific method - which is, indeed, just a method. Forum: Recovery Board
Bradley said: "The scientific method is gate-kept to a degree that Science is just as dogmatic as religion".
I don't think this is true. Science is the study of reality, i.e. what really happens. The scientific method is a set of ways to avoid error (including self-induced and self-reinforced error). That's all. If science is dogmatic, then reality is dogmatic. Forum: Recovery Board
Henry, you have a ghawd-given talent for making everything boring. You make sweeping statements and impose requirements on others, while not really debating at all. There are many countries (including France where I live) which are not religious (or even anti-religious) but which still have a moral outlook. All you have to do is look. Forum: Recovery Board
They used to be able to. The book about Joe Jr's wives, In Sacred Loneliness, recounts quite a few occasions, including women speaking in tongues. I wonder when that changed? Forum: Recovery Board
I watch you all talking about moving vast distances to different climate zones and my thought is: THIS is one of the major things which the European Union also gives its citizens - and one of the things which Brexit has made very difficult for Brits...
Unrelated but religiously-interesting anecdote: one of my best friends from Paris is actually an American who did 7 years of catholic seminary Forum: Recovery Board
I don't know whether you say it every year, Nightingale, but every year it's true ;-)
Except that the weather is set to break tomorrow, just in time for the weekend :-/ Forum: Recovery Board