Paul Flocken
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| Quote (CeilingCat @ Feb. 08 2008,03:00) | | Quote (Mr_Christopher @ Feb. 07 2008,16:13) | Go to Evolution News N Views baby! and read Geoffrey Simmons response to the debate with PZ.
It is hilarious. In short, "PZ and his kind are not nice and PZ did not admit he's wrong about everything!"
It's both childish and ignorant to be sure. |
That article contains a lot of deep tard. I think the good doctor sums it up well in his first line: "Against Stupidity, God Himself Is Helpless". I'll add that stupidity combined with ignorance pretty well cleans God's clock.
Professor Myers comments on Doc Simmons. |
I prefer the Schiller version.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed,
Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Accursed, who striveth after noble ends,
And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!
To the fool-king belongs the world.
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I suppose it's better to make the religious attribution then to make one to an enlightenment poet.
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."-John F. Kennedy
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