“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.