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Author of Writers & Politics in Nigeria, articles on Anglo Saxon coinage & Philip Larkin: Life, Art & Love. Larkin's Letters Home 1936-1977 published Nov. 2018.

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2024-11-25

i Pioneer of DNA studies Rosalind Franklin: Jewish.
ii Nobel Physics prizewinner (twice) Marie Curie: Atheist.
iii Pioneer of battlefront hospital care Mary Seacole: Christian.
iv Painter Frida Kahlo: Atheist. https://t.co/0JDN3GyEL8

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No. I would take a more objective approach. What evidence is there that god exists? What subjective reasons make it more comfortable to believe in god than not? What do anthropology and history tell us about the development of different concepts of god?

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Indeed; they still managed to find their way.

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What a disingenuous way of arguing! My tweet was a reply to one by you (which you omit) respectfully citing St Augustine on the "truth". For 1400 yrs the church was chiefly concerned with the violent suppression of "heresy". Enlightenment scepticism forced it to stop 400 yrs ago.

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Lucien Freud Exhibition, Royal Academy December 2019. Flora with Blue Toenails. Not a nice man.

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Either a) A deity decided to "create" a trillion varied species of bacteria, 17k species of lichen & 28k species of fish; Or b) these species evolved by adaptation to different environments over millions of generations through the refinement of mutations which improved survival.

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Are you a Manichaean heretic? Fortunately for you Enlightenment scepticism forced Xtians to stop burning heretics 400 yrs ago.

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It isn't unreasonable to be bothered by the fact that for its first 14 centuries the main occupation of Christianity was to identify and kill heretics. By opposing faith with reason and evidence we may hope to avoid a return to this barbarism.

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