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Originally Posted by Ikutiera
Islam is in many ways more tolerant of scientific study than is Christian fundamentalism. It does not, for example, argue that the world is only 6,000 years old.
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It's actually Judaism that argues (against science) that the Universe is 6,000 years old and rejects evolution.
The film Jurassic Park, for example, was condemned in Israel by Orthodox rabbis for this reason.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.