The Problem Of Human Suffering Is Never

We Read The Golden Rule And Judge It To Be A Brilliant Distillation Of Many Of Our Ethical Impulses. And Then We Come Across Another Of God’s Teachings On Morality: If A Man Discovers On His Wedding Night That His Bride Is Not A Virgin, He Must Stone Her To Death On Her Father’s Doorstep (deuteronomy 22:13-21).

The Core Of Science Is Not A Mathematical Modeling--it Is Intellectual Honesty. It Is A Willingness To Have Our Certainties About The World Constrained By Good Evidence And Good Argument.

There Is No Question But That Nominally Religious Scientists Like Francis Collins And Kenneth R. Miller Are Doing Lasting Harm To Our Discourse By The Accommodations They Have Made To Religious Irrationality.

A Puppet Is Free As Long As He Loves His Strings.

Lying Is, Almost By Definition, A Refusal To Cooperate With Others. It Condenses A Lack Of Trust And Trustworthiness Into A Single Act. It Is Both A Failure Of Understanding And An Unwillingness To Be Understood. To Lie Is To Recoil From Relationship.