On November 6, 2007 a child in India had an operation to have two extra legs and two extra arms removed. She was born that way because she was in the womb with a twin. The two of them grew together. The local population considered her the manifestation of a goddess. Her parents named her after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth. Science understood exactly what caused the phenomenon and the medical profession fixed it. 75% of the population on this planet believe in some sort of supernatural or spiritual deity.
Why do so many intelligent people on this planet fail to realize the parallels of human behavior that are witnessed so often is proof of the human gullibility of believing in supernatural things like, God and other superstitious phenomenon, such as the little girl that I described. Instead, human beings throw out common sense for the sake of ignorance and then preach superstition as being fact.
How dangerous is this to science and to our existence?
2007-11-07
12:32:10
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