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“The violence described in the Old Testament was endemic to the ancient Near East and remains endemic to much of the world today. Although our refined Western sensibilities recoil from these violent passages, in fact the Old Testament is to be credited for presenting the human condition in all its starkness”
― The End of Christianity
― The End of Christianity
“Studies of the interaction between genetic and environmental risks are pinpointing critical parts of our health that derive from environmental variables.”
― The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
― The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
“God does not hinder the exercise of human freedom but rather anticipates its consequences.”
― The End of Christianity
― The End of Christianity
“In short, the problem of evil starts when creatures think God is evil for “cramping their style.” The impulse of our modern secular culture to cast off restraint wherever possible finds its root here.”
― The End of Christianity
― The End of Christianity
“Population genetics calculations suggest that in 5 million years (one million years longer than the alleged time between Ambulocetus and Rodhocetus), animals with generation lines of about ten years (typical of whales) could substitute no more than about 1,700 mutations.6 This is not nearly enough to generate the new information that whales need for aquatic life, even assuming that all the hypothetical information-adding mutations required for this could somehow arise. (And as shown in chapter 9, real science shows that this cannot occur.)”
― Refuting Evolution: A Response to the National Academy of Science s' Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
― Refuting Evolution: A Response to the National Academy of Science s' Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
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