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Quote of the day: Sir Joseph J. Thomson

“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth…

Quote of the day…Werner Heisenberg.

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” “In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of…

Does science require faith, like religion?

Quora.com question: Does science really require faith like religion? “Anybody who has seriously been engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with… Science cannot solve…

The darkest secret of science.

What are the darkest secrets of science? The above question was posed at a forum at Quora.com. Below is a copy and paste of my answer: The darkest secret of science is that the science of one age becomes the myth or pseudo-science of the next. Biologist Lynn Margulis, winner of the U.S. Presidential Medal for Science, put it best in…

Atheism’s insurmountable problem of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

Frank Turek and Norman Geisler make an excellent point in their book I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. The Second Law of Thermodynamics poses an insurmountable problem for atheistic explanations of the origin of life from non-living matter: “…nature disorders, it doesn’t organize things (the fact that nature brings things toward disorder…

The cultural and ideological bias against theism in much of academia.

In If the Evidence for God is So Strong, Why Are So Many Smart People Unconvinced, I discuss the ideological bias against theism which is pervasive within much of academia. Much deception of the general public is achieved when academics present ideological assumptions against theism as scientific conclusions conflicting with theism.  Relevant to this subject,…