Louis
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| Quote (Thought Provoker @ Mar. 29 2010,17:40) | PART TWO - The Great Questions of Human Existence
CHAPTER THREE - The Origins of the Universe
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| Quote | | In God and the Astronomers, the astrophysicist Robert Jastrow wrote this final paragraph: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." |
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I'll trade that quote for another, thanks:
| Quote | God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
H L Mencken, Minority Report: H L Mencken's Notebooks, no. 35 (1956) |
The theologians are not at the top of the mountain waiting. They are trying to pretend the mountain doesn't exist and only occasionally skirting the foothills by dint of either sheer luck or agreement with the blindingly obvious.
Louis
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Bye.
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