The Devil's Chaplain: Is Houston the epicenter of anti-science?

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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Food for thought.

Back later with our take after some fun on Not on the origin of species, but the origin of life over at our favorite Houston science blog, SciGuy.

Won't you join Eric Berger (the SciGuy moderator) & the rest of us? Pewfuls of anti-science guaranteed.
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Moments of Epiphany

"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

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Is Houston the epicenter of anti-science?

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