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The personal reflections of a self-described Skeptic. News, reviews, commentary, and relevant links in the areas of scientific discovery, religious study, the psychology of belief, pseudoscience, supernatural claims, philosophy, and political discourse.
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- The God Disillusion
- Deep Astronomy
- Respect the Believer, Question the Belief
- Awkward Bible Passages Part II
- Biggest Conspiracy Ever
- Early Christian Writings
- Jesus Was No Vegetarian
- The Antichrist May Drive A Hybrid
- Britney Spears is the Antichrist?
- Rabbi Wants to Renew Animal Sacrifice
- Non-Religious Funerals on the Rise in Britain
- Robert Ingersoll
- Awkward Bible Passages Part I
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Quotes
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. – Philip K. Dick
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
Some things have to be believed to be seen. – Ralph Hodgson
When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service! - John Mackay
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. — Descartes
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. – Carl Sagan
Luck is probability taken personally. - Chip Denman
It is bad luck to be superstitious. - Andrew W. Mathis
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. – Robert Ingersoll
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all. - C.S. Lewis
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters). - Francisco Goya
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. – Unknown
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. - John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens
Some things have to be believed to be seen. – Ralph Hodgson
When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service! - John Mackay
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. — Descartes
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear. - Thomas Jefferson
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. – Carl Sagan
Luck is probability taken personally. - Chip Denman
It is bad luck to be superstitious. - Andrew W. Mathis
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. – Robert Ingersoll
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all. - C.S. Lewis
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason brings forth monsters). - Francisco Goya
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. – Unknown
Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves. - John Danforth, priest, ambassador, senator
3 comments:
Did you find those diagrams somewhere, or did you make them yourself?
One thing I particularly like about them is that they show how science is an ongoing process, while faith is static and sterile. (Well, that's not entirely true...religions do change with cultures, but it's a slow and haphazard process.)
I wish I had made them! I actually found them a while back on a site called wellingtongrey.net (which is written on the image in the lower-right corner). When I put the image in my post, I went to find the original on their website and found that the domain is now defunct. All credit goes to the clever people who made that site.
I agree about your assessment of the image. I think it's also powerful in that it shows faith to be very uncomplicated, and perhaps more appealing than the circuit board-like process of science. It takes a lot of effort, integrity and humility to subject one's beliefs to that kind of scrutiny.
The stagnation of mankind has nothing to do with the way the diagrams are shown- instead of faith - they should be known as process and ignorance revealed. Faith is the presence of taking the first step to find the answer after you have failed as in the second diagram. It is mostly ignorance that even alludes to the spectrum of skeptical irrelevance, the other part is hype. – have a good day to the author and increase with something worthwhile for the vision to see the irony of stupidity.
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