“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally and even brilliantly, and the other capable only of such ghastly balderdash which issues from the minds of Baptist evangelists? Such balderdash takes various forms, but it is at its worst when it is religious. Why should this be so? What is there in religion that completely flabbergasts the wits of those who believe in it? I see no logical necessity for that flabbergasting. Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. In other fields such hypotheses are common, and yet they do no apparent damage to those who incline to them. But in the religious field they quickly rush the believer to the intellectual Bad Lands. He not only becomes anaesthetic to objective fact; he becomes a violent enemy of objective fact. It annoys and irritates him. He sweeps it away as something somehow evil...” FactsHumorFunnyScienceReligionBeliefReligiousBrainEnemyPsychologyViolenceEvidenceLogicWitDamageNonsenseSanityHypothesisPsychologistSuperstitionBaptistsUnknownSuperstitiousEvangelistsNecessityScientificEvangelicalsBaptistGod Of The GapsBadlandsBalderdashA Scientific Man And The BibleScientific Review Book:American Mercury Source: American Mercury
“To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker. [Diary entry, 1971]” ThinkingScienceNatureWonderSeriousMiracleUnnecessaryFallacyScience Vs ReligionUnexplainableGod Of The Gaps Author:Fritz Zwicky
“The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.” GodScienceNatureKnowledgeAtheismIgnoranceExplanationCosmologyNaturalismBig Bang TheoryThe Big BangOrigin Of The UniverseGod Of The Gaps Book:God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire}” FallacyPersonificationVoltaireGod Of The GapsIncomprehensibilityVoltaire Letter Author:Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.” ScienceUnderstandingAtheismIgnoranceAtheistPhysicsBiologyDnaWatsonNobel LaureateGod Of The GapsDouble HelixWatson And Crick Author:James D. Watson