Science has a huge advantage over “other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction. - Jerry Coyne

An “intellectual tradition,” as anyone with two neurons to rub together knows, is not the same thing as evidence. But theologians seem to lack that second neuron.

When one has a religious experience, what is “true” is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality.

I was flabbergasted. How could it be that someone found evidence convincing but was still not convinced? The answer, of course, was that his religion had immunized him against my evidence.