“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
