“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.” WorldWayYearsCountryWould BeEarthChristianBeliefNaturalAtheismTeachingStudentsEvolutionPoliticianEvidenceWesternPositive AtheismOne WayReasonableHospitalsMechanismPropositionsSelectionControversialReconcileNatural SelectionBelief In GodDeductionsDenominationsScandinaviansChristian DenominationsJay Gould Author:Katha Pollitt
“funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.” PeopleYearsBelieveHateWonderPsychologyReadyMonthsGardenPatientVarietyNeurosisCounseling Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism
“Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.” WantYearsHas BeensMadeTwoPastFacesHundredGainsExpertsInsisting Book:Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time Source: Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
