"They felt that science would be corrosive to religious beliefs and they were worried about it. Dammit I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief. And it's a good thing too."
-- Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics, who was talking about Muslim morons who wanted to prevent the teaching of science in universities.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
One of my favorite quotes about the religious implications of science.
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