The Scientific Miracles

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"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
-- Isaac Asimov

"We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational...Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests."
-- Isaac Asimov


"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
-- Isaac Asimov

"I would not be satisfied to have my kids choose to be religious without trying to argue them out of it, just as I would not be satisfied to have them decide to smoke regularly or engage in any other practice I considered detrimental to mind or body."
-- Isaac Asimov, "Yours, Isaac Asimov"

"Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-- Isaac Asimo

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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Well, science is one thing.. But you have to do things with it either.
I always thought die-hard science was my thing. But it's not. I'm more for the creative, application part of science (if that's science).

I studied science in school but when it came time to have a career I decided on art. (long story)

I've always felt, however, that science and art were basically the same. Both look for the truth and show it. they just use different methods.

and we became human when we looked at our world Imagining it Again, drawing pictures of it in the sands and on the walls. And when we transformed bones and sticks using them in ways they had not been originally made for.

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2. For women, it is a big and welcome change from the "in your face" sexuality of western culture.

certainly if people feel comfortable "Turning to Islam", that's just fine by me.

but i'd like to point out that I have always "dressed down" in this western culture and haven't worn makeup in years. No one has ever forced me to wear anything I didn't want to wear in this "in your face" western sexual culture.

and while I've had my share of "sexist" behavior, it's all part of living in the real world. deal with it.

frankly, i think some females just can't take the heat. not that HAVE to, mind you. but in this culture, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.