Carl

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― J. Anderson Thomson, Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith

“All of this suggests that lack of religious belief is a side effect of doing science. And as repugnant as that is to many, it’s really no surprise. For some people, at least, science’s habit of requiring evidence for belief, combined with its culture of pervasive doubt and questioning, must often carry over to other aspects of one’s life—including the possibility of religious faith.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

“The chemist Peter Atkins correctly observed, “Natural selection was a revolution and a stepping-stone to fame; so was relativity, and so was quantum theory. The sheer thrill of discovery is the spur to greater effort. All young scientists aspire to revolution.” The same can’t be said for theologians (Martin Luther is a rare exception), who either bear their heresies in silence or aspire only to trivial reinterpretations of church doctrine.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible