Anubis
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[QUOTE="Anubis, post: 8275791, member: 144014"]It would be intellectually dishonest for a science teacher to say that there is no heaven..
Why is that ?[/QUOTE]
Because the only way to say that there is no heaven would be to investigate all possible options that could remotely suggest the existence of heaven(note the term "all possible options")....although it can be done in a closed system(such as there is no Heaven in xyz location)....the claim of a supernatural heaven is "super"natural....the claim extends way beyond our understanding of the universe...or it could extend beyond the existent universe itself....thus in the realm of intellectual discourse unless the existence of heaven is disproved or the absence of heaven in proved one may not claim that there is no heaven.
The same problem arises with the existence of any deity....if you watch Hitchens vs Hitchens debate you'll see Christopher Hitchens mentions the atheist proposition...the first of which is one may not claim that there is no god....but one may claim that there is no sufficient reason to believe in god.
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@Rain Man What you say is true...but the reality is not in our favor...atleast not in Bangladesh....going head to head with religion will not achieve our goal of an educated nation...the strategy has to be stealth...it sounds bad but in this case the ends do justify the means.