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Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Stephen Jay Gould
Age: 60 †
Born: 1941
Born: September 10
Died: 2002
Died: May 20
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In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.
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The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
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Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
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Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.
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We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
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The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
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World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
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Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
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If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
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The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
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