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Religion is a quest for understanding, a way to find something that eases your soul. However, that quest has limits, and those limits are defined by your particular religion.
Take evolution as a prime example. Most religions have creation myths, and most of them are incompatible with the theory of evolution. So nine times out of ten, what happens? The theory is discarded and the myth is maintained and defended as the truth.
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I introduce to you a new fallacy. The Nine Times out of Ten arguement. In abscence of any clear data, a fictional 90% majority is constructed to represent the whole of a group. Any counter example is dismissed as the 10%, and no amount of evidence will shake the claim that 90% do X, Y, and Z.
In reality, it's something around 80-85% of Americans that support the teaching of evolution in public schools, even when a vast majority, around 90% IIRC, are at least nominally religious.
The worst part of the fallacy is that it is a tension between unamimity and incompletion. It allows for sweeping statements such as "All A's do B" but are sheltered from counter proofs of an A that does not in fact do B. So please...if you'd like to make these sorts of outragous claims....have some proof...