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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: Religion A vs Religion B
Description: In an attempt to prove that the Earth is flat, Mad Mike launched himself into the sky aboard a steam-powered rocket. He left his parachute behind with gravitationally predictable results.
Bad ideas have dominated human history, with the greatest impact in the arena of religion, where Religion A has battled Religion B (and occasionally Religion C) for pretty much as long as there has been organized religion. At one point, the battles destroyed a third or more of all human life in Europe.
So it’s not a big surprise that in the middle of a...