Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people. " I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people. "
Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance “God”.
If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true, and a scientific disproof of some of faith's claims (e. g. , Adam and Eve, the Great Flood). Religion has nothing to contribute to science, and science is best off staying as far away from faith as possible. The "constructive dialogue" between science and faith is, in reality, a destructive monlogue, with science making all the good points, tearing down religion in the process.
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.
We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!
Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.