The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school’s curriculum.
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They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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'Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.'
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are 'up to a point.'
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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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