The Devil's Chaplain: Craig Venter, ex-surf bum & Vietnam Vet

Thursday, January 24, 2008

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans." --Khalil Gibran

Little did Khalil know that an ex-surfer Vietnam Vet, who once attempted suicide by swimming out to sea, would be the one to find them.

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"What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the climsy, wasteful, blundering low and horribly cruel works of nature." ~Charles Darwin, Letter to Hooker, 1856

"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact." ~Charles Darwin

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by chldren." ~Charles Darwin

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science wasd justified. ~E. O. Wilson

"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals." ~E. O. Wilson

"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the God, but that the Gods are the dreams of men." ~Carl Sagan

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. ~Carl Sagan

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." ~Carl Sagan

"Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages." ~Galileo Galilei

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." ~Richard Dawkins

"All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God." ~Stephen Hawking

"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." ~Thomas Alva Edison

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." ~Albert Einstein

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." ~Arthur C. Clarke

"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." ~Thomas Jefferson

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." ~James Madison

"Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." ~John Adams

"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause." ~George Washington

"I hold thatin this country there must be complete severance of church and state." ~Theodore Roosevelt

"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life." ~Aristotle

The Devil's Chaplain

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Craig Venter, ex-surf bum & Vietnam Vet

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