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Originally Posted by FireFly
I think he's saying it's ignorant to completely rule something out when there's no evidence against it.
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I guess we have different interpretations of "ignorant" then.
Riddle me this... Do you not completely rule out anything even when there is no evidence against it?
For example, this comes from the wikipedia page on Scientology...
the story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who first kidnapped certain individuals who were deemed "excess population" and loaded these individuals into space planes for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth).
I have no evidence that this is not true. An awful lot of people believe it, I know that, but I have no evidence that it's not true yet still I completely rule it out. Does that make me ignorant? If it does, are you ignorant just like me, or do you believe this scientology baloney just might be true"
Now I do recognize that believing in this stuff and just believing in a less-specific God story are two different things but the point is that
not believing in something that can't be proven is hardly ignorant.