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| | EVOLUTION IS A RELIGIOUS FAITH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the inevitable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort could not prove to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past. |
 | | Try telling a biologist that, impartially judged among other accepted theories of science, such as the theory of relativity, it seems to you that the theory of natural selection has a very uncertain, hypothetical status, and watch his reaction. |
 | | Evolution is a sacred object or process in that it becomes endowed with mysterious and awesome power."*T. Lessl, Science and the Sacred Cosmos: The Ideological Rhetoric of Carl Sagan," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 71:178 (1985). |
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