This New York Times article is based on the January 4, 2005, edition of
Edge. Go to the Edge website for additional resources.
To: snarks_when_bored
As mathematician Dr. David Berlinski said 12/19/97 on William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Firing Line show on PBS:
"Darwin's theory of evolution [macro - not micro evolution] is the last of the great 19th century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudianism and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx, and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in that dark dungeon where disgarded gods gather."
2 posted on
01/05/2005 9:16:44 AM PST by
Matchett-PI
(Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
To: RadioAstronomer; PatrickHenry
To: snarks_when_bored
I believe that human consciousness is a conjuring trick, designed to fool us into thinking we are in the presence of an inexplicable mystery. Who is the conjuror and why is s/he doing it? The conjuror is natural selection, and the purpose has been to bolster human self-confidence and self-importance - so as to increase the value we each place on our own and others' lives.
I think, therefore I aint.
5 posted on
01/05/2005 9:20:00 AM PST by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: snarks_when_bored
But I know true love exists. I just can't prove it.Neither can I.
*sigh*
6 posted on
01/05/2005 9:23:16 AM PST by
Lazamataz
("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
To: snarks_when_bored
I'm taken with religious folks who argue that you not only can, but should believe without requiring proof. Mine is to not believe without requiring proof.
Sir, please prove two plus two equals four, or that you're a human being and not actually an asteroid. Here's a simple one, prove that your mental stimuli is accurate to the world around you. Can't prove it? Then what in blazes can you do?
Everything one knows is based on an element of faith that can't be proven.
I swear the more brilliant the scientist, the most insanely idiotic his metaphysical views. Must be a pride thing.
7 posted on
01/05/2005 9:37:52 AM PST by
DarkSavant
(It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain!)
To: snarks_when_bored
Some of these people sound downright dangerous.
9 posted on
01/05/2005 9:40:59 AM PST by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: snarks_when_bored
While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many - the mesmerizing attraction, the ideational obsession, the sexual afterglow, profound self-sacrifice and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, has no barriers or boundaries. It's difficult to define, eludes modern measurement and seems scientifically woolly. But I know true love exists. I just can't prove it.
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I liked this one. :)
11 posted on
01/05/2005 9:50:34 AM PST by
exnavychick
(I'm no expert, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!)
To: snarks_when_bored
I took the blue pill by accepting Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior.
13 posted on
01/05/2005 10:03:21 AM PST by
RobRoy
(Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
To: snarks_when_bored
I believe that I am what I am because you are what you are !!!
Oak Hay, smartypants... prove me wrong !!! ;-))
17 posted on
01/05/2005 10:19:31 AM PST by
GeekDejure
( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
To: snarks_when_bored
Too many pseudoscientists on this list. Got my hopes all up, then . . . BANG! . . . in march the "emotionalists." Huh?
To: snarks_when_bored
John Brockman, "Third culture", Prof Dawkins.
beware of the enemy within, folks.
If you cannot recognize the enemy, you and your posterity are condemned to the tyranny of the anti-Christians.
Don't let these fakes and phonies bamboozle you with their lies and distortions. Don't let them divide you.
You've been warned.
23 posted on
01/05/2005 10:47:34 AM PST by
TAquinas
To: snarks_when_bored
27 posted on
01/05/2005 10:56:36 AM PST by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: snarks_when_bored
I believe, but I cannot prove, that most "Scientists" are really "Sciencists" in sheep's clothing.
36 posted on
01/05/2005 11:49:48 AM PST by
Theophilus
(Save Little Democrats, Stop Abortion)
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