The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. — Chief Justice John Roberts (Parents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 [June 28, 2007])
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Scientific Religion
So far neither Dark Energy nor the Multiverse seem to generate falsifiable hypotheses, removing them from science and relegating them to religion. I cheerfully admit that in the absence of evidence I prefer the religion I grew up with to these new ones, but perhaps I am insufficiently flexible in my views.— Jerry Pournelle
Good or Better?
When everything is good enough, it takes work to discover what’s better, and better is often a matter of whim and preference anyway. — Jerry Pournelle
Real Science
Real science looks at data, makes falsifiable predictions, and attempts to falsify or confirm those predictions. The rest is ‘other forces’ at work. — Jerry Pournelle
Quotations
The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine. — Abraham Lincoln
Science
When everything is evidence of the thing you want to believe, it might be time to stop pretending you’re all about science. – Ann Althouse
Hands
I would fain be to the eternal God what a man’s hand is to a man. — Theologia Germanica
Belief
In my experience over 90% of the arguments and criticisms made against Christianity can be answered with, “Yeah, I don’t believe in a God like that either.” — Jim S.
Science
We approach the subject (prayer) in a spirit of scientific enquiry. The question to be asked is not what according to our theology God ought to do, but what He actually does. — Lewis Maclachlan
Superstition
We must do our best to see life as it really is and not as modern superstition interprets it. — Lewis Maclachlan