“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.” ProblemActionPoliticalDecisionTakenPoliticianSolutionsTragedyHarmAlternativesConsistentUncompromisingPolitical Action Book:Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays Source: Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays
“The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.” MenMeanFeelingsChristSinLordTakenConditionsLowsConsequencePunishmentConsistentDread Author:George MacDonald
“I have characterized Ross as exemplifying an extreme position among theistic scientists. However, he is not so extreme as to promote the scientifically unsound notions of the young-Earth creationists and other anti-evolutionists ... They are so far off the scale that their scientific claims need not be taken seriously. Their distortions and misrepresentations of the scientific facts are not consistent with their self-righteous claims of acting to protect all that is good and moral.” NeedsSelfFactsEarthYoungActingMoralTakenPositionProtectScientistClaimsNotionScaryExtremesScalesConsistentRighteousDistortionSelf RighteousScientific FactsMisrepresentation Author:Victor J. Stenger