The God Delusion
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2006-10-18
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Retrieved
- Mar 16, 2012
- ISBN
- yq1xDpicgh
2 memes from this reference
Extraterrestrials as Gods
[T]here are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. … As Arthur C. Clarke put it, in his Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In what sense would they be…
The Joy of Being Wrong
It does happen. I have previously told the story of a respected elder statesman of the Zoology Department at Oxford when I was an undergraduate. For years he had passionately believed, and taught, that the Golgi Apparatus (a microscopic feature of the interior of cells) was not real: an artefact, an illusion. Every…