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Were this universally the case, creationism would have ceased to have adherents several generations ago. Therefore, I submit that your position is only true for rational positions reached and held by rational people who are willing to be convinced by rational discourse.


"Why can't we launch waste into the sun?" doesn't really signal irrationality. If they prefaced it with "I believe the earth is 6000 years old and I wonder..." then maybe you'd have a point.


Most people don't have such ... strongly-held ... beliefs about rocket science as they do their origin.


I suspect you are correct.

I simply wished to make a point about the generality of parent's point.




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