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Beyond Impossibility

April 10th, 2010 | Author: Norma Allen

My grandmother did not believe that a man could walk on the moon. Even as we sat around the television that momentous day, July 20, 1969, she kept repeating, “That’s not real. That’s not real.” Her worldview did not allow for the occurrence of such apparent impossibilities.

But many people have no trouble believing that men have actually walked on the moon. We believe that future travellers to the moon will find mementos of those visits such as footprints, flags, and abandoned equipment, including a used car or two. History, if we choose to Read the rest of this entry »

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"The Christian religion made its appearance as the common disturber of the peace of the world, because it put an end to the tranquil influence of custom, authority, credulity, sentiment, and imagination; [and] forced upon men the disagreeable task of examining evidence, searching records, and proving all things."

- Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms from the Writings of Archbishop Whately, 1856

Le nombre de ceux qui pensent est excessivement petit, et ceux-là ne s'avisent pas de troubler le monde.

-- Voltaire,
Lettres Philosophiques

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