From: 69jpil69@gmail.com
On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:07:20 -0600, sticks
wrote:
>On 2/10/2026 10:08 PM, Samuel Spade wrote:
>> sticks wrote:
>>
>>> Christian Anfinsen (1916–1995), Professor of Chemistry at Harvard and
>>> winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
>>> “I think only an idiot can be an atheist. We must admit that there
>>> exists an incomprehensible power or force with limitless foresight and
>>> knowledge that started the whole universe going in the first place.”
>
>I forgot to note this quote was taken from the book 'God The Science The
>Evidence'. Not that it makes any difference.
>
>> William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and winner of the 1956
>> Nobel Prize in Physics:
>>
>> "The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits
>> is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a
>> major degree by improvement in environment."
>>
>> and
>> "Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically
>> reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and
>> effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic
>> man-in-the street."
>>
>> So he knows everything about everything, right?
>
>I suppose it was the word "idiot" in Anfinsen's words that triggered you
>and your pals.
Since you mention it, that would be a case of attacking the person and
not their argument. I suppose doing that is ok when the person makes
themselves the point of their argument as Anfinson did.
>--
>Science Doesn’t Support Darwin. Scientists Do
God doesn't support creation. Creationists do.
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