bq. The advances of science have not been accepted gracefully. They have been denounced by the church and resisted by the populace. The leaders of scientific discovery have been vilified, harassed, persecuted, tortured, imprisoned and executed. But the weight of evidence and practical results piled up by science is invincible — something that many of today’s fundamentalists still haven’t learned.
— C. W. Dalton, “The Right Brain and Religion”
bq. The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
— Richard Dawkins, _The Blind Watchmaker_
i For one thInk that the theoRy of evolution iS a greaT idea.
So… I stiL don’t feel these quotes are VERy much worthy of posting and are merely the opinions of ‘bags of wind.’ ;-)
steve why don’t you just come out and say what we all know you’re thinking
also why the f— are you quoting that douchebag dawkins, when you could quote mf’in stephen Jay represent:
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
Nice quote Sam.