Scientific statements

A Duke’s Mixture (use discernment)

“In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.” -- Richard Dawkins

“Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” -- Richard Dawkins (Dawkins believes “life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA!”)

“Science cannot tell you if it’s right or wrong for you to eat your own baby’s clone, but it can tell you that’s what you are actually doing. Then you can decide for yourself if you think it’s right or wrong.” -- Richard Dawkins

“There is a creeping danger of equating science with rationality, but what is beyond science is not necessarily irrational. Science cannot tell us for instance whether a poem or work of literature or a work of art and music is good or beautiful. Science can tell us that if you put strychnine into your grandmother’s tea it will kill her, but science cannot tell you whether it is morally right to do so.” -- John Lennox

“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.” -- C. S. Lewis

“You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn round and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.” -- Albert Einstein

“...keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.” -- Paul, an apostle