Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

-Thomas Jefferson
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

Richard Dawkins


"Leon Lederman, the physicist and Nobel laureate, once half-jokingly remarked that the real goal of physics was to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt. In that spirit, Dawkins offered up his own T-shirt slogan for the ongoing evolution revolution:
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

Napoleon Bonaparte

The 3 Laws of Prediction by Arthur C. Clark
  1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
  3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Chevron's feel good ads

Chevron's been going round with these feel-good ads, trying to make people feel better about consuming oil and all.....sad fact is that in most of the responses, people were more interested in the background music rather than in the actual ad itself...pretty ironic eh? But the ads have a point though......we are heavily dependent on oil, and our dependence on it is not going to disappear overnight...sure alternatives will be found , but thats in the future...for now, we'll just have to tighten our belts , and start taking the bus, and pray like mad that someone builds a car that runs on water.......on the flip side, the rising price of oil, also means less polluting carbon fuels will be burnt, meaning less green house gases..the rising cost of fuel means that suddenly, green alternatives so much more appealing and cost-effective...YIPEEEE!!!! And the fact that this was brought about by the economic forces of supply and demand, and not by the baying of the eco-wolves of the Sea Shepard and Greenpeace makes it so much more ironic.....

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