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• Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
• There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
• Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
• If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
• Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
• Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
• Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
• I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
• Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
• While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
• Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
• The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

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