Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.
PZ MyersThe hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
PZ MyersReligion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.
PZ MyersPlantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and itโs lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.
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