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• we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent observations and inferences by the thousands.
  The earth is billions of years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary descent....
• Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention i
  because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false....
• The enemy of science is irrationalism, not religion. -- Stephen Jay Gould
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic.
  It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone....
• we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
  I do not doubt that natural selection acted in building our oversized brains--and I am equally confidant that our brains became large as an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting functions)....
• I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. -- Jay Gould
• Quote #602 History is the version of events that people have agreed upon. -- Napoleo