Rationalists and Scientists are Allies
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Science and Human Life (1971)
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One plasters the god-of-the-gaps with knowledge, the other swats the bugs that come through.
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