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Confident assertions by scientists that in the privacy of their chambers they have demonstrated that God does not exist have nothing to do with science, and even less to do with God’s existence.
David Berlinski • The Devil's Delusion
Similarly, Darwin resolved a problem that was not a problem at all in nineteenth-century biology, because his contemporaries were convinced that they already knew the answer.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Darwinism’s icy grip on modern intellectual life is based on shoddy philosophy, not science.
Michael J. Behe • Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs,” the geneticist Richard Lewontin remarked equably in The New York Review of Books, “in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories
... See moreDavid Berlinski • The Devil's Delusion
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
