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The same thing can be said about science - I would hazard a guess that in the last 100 years, more people have died as the result of scientific inventions than as a result of religion ever.

 

you have a point with 2 world wars but I think your figures are a bit out. Almost every other conflict had something to do with religion and the one in Northern Ireland lasted - on and off - for 400 years, then there was the 100 years war, the conflicts in the middle east etc etc. We were mudering each other and blaming a mythical being

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The same thing can be said about science - I would hazard a guess that in the last 100 years, more people have died as the result of scientific inventions than as a result of religion ever.

 

you have a point with 2 world wars but I think your figures are a bit out. Almost every other conflict had something to do with religion and the one in Northern Ireland lasted - on and off - for 400 years, then there was the 100 years war, the conflicts in the middle east etc etc. We were mudering each other and blaming a mythical being

 

Maybe, but many of those deaths are also attributable to technology. If we were limited to throwing rocks and punches, or hitting each other with sticks rather than shooting them or blowing them up with high explosive, the figure would be far far lower.

 

I don't remember where I read it, but it was in a fictional book (possibly Douglas Adams), where they described science as being "the search for ever more efficient methods of blowing each other up".

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I beg to differ Rich, BTW eminence Royalty have 2 birthdays, an actual and an official one:hihi::hihi:

 

Just cos he lives in Dore, doesn't mean he's Royalty dear, unless his last name's Royle, Royle family? Oh never mind :hihi:

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