If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.
Jerry A. CoyneCan a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
Jerry A. CoyneSome believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.
Jerry A. CoyneThe 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.
Jerry A. Coyne