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• The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all…
• The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and…
• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel…
• When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask…
• We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure…
• An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects…
• To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles…

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