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I just finished a research paper into the genetics of color blindness (something I personally have). I ran out of black ink, so I am using “dark olive” as my font color. It looks brown to me. Ironic, much?
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Bigotry is an ugly, ugly thing. It can be overcome many different ways, but it takes a lot of hard work to mature past it.
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge.
~H.L. Mencken
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Nary a day goes by when my thoughts don’t turn toward Thomas Jefferson’s immense intellect.
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights.
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You apparently don’t understand what randomness means. ‘A bias in the probability’ of something is pretty much exactly what we mean by non-random. Throwing dice is proverbially a random process. If you throw a die a thousand times, you expect to get a series of random numbers. If a particular die was biased towards, say, even numbers, it would deliver a non-random series of numbers. If natural selection is a bias in the probability of reproduction with respect to phenotype, that is equivalent to saying it is non-random. Do you really seriously not understand that?
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
~Thomas Jefferson
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What takes a creationist 30 seconds to say takes an educated person 3 hours to correct.
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“Militant atheist” just means “an atheist who says something”.
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If you believe Hitler used Darwinism to justify the Holocaust you are (a) wrong, (b) ignorant of history (Hitler did no such thing), (c) attempting to make an Argument from Consequence (which is logically fallacious), and (d) not saying a damn thing about the validity of evolutionary theory.
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Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any “miraculous” cures from faith-healing, beyond the body’s own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose’ of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.
~Mr. Sagan
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For the Sake of Science 