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The Second Reason To Abandon Environmental Religion Is More Pressing. Religions Think They Know It All, But The Unhappy Truth Of The Environment Is That We Are Dealing With Incredibly Complex, Evolving Systems, And We Usually Are Not Certain How Best To Proceed. Those Who Are Certain Are Demonstrating Their Personality Type, Or Their Belief System, Not The State Of Their Knowledge.

Social Control Is Best Managed Through Fear.

Praise Not The Day Until Evening Has Come, A Woman Until She Is Burnt, A Sword Until It Is Tried, A Maiden Until She Is Married, Ice Until It Has Been Crossed, Beer Until It Has Been Drunk.

Sneaking Up On It Sometimes Helps: I've Found I Can Be Very Productive For An Hour Before Dinner, Because There Obviously Isn't Enough Time To Really Do Anything, So I Can Tell Myself I'm Just Screwing Around.

Science Is Nothing More Than A Method Of Inquiry. The Method Says An Assertion Is Valid - And Will Be Universally Accepted - Only If It Can Be Reproduced By Others, And Thereby Independently Verified. The Impersonal Rigor Of The Method Has Produced Enormously Powerful Results For 400 Years. The Scientific Method Is Utterly Apolitical. A Truth In Science Is Verifiable Whether You Are Black Or White, Male Or Female, Old Or Young. It’s Verifiable Whether You Know The Experimenter, Or Whether You Don’t.