Irreconcilable Differences

Despite agonized attempts to "get along," religion and science are fundamentally, at their cores, incompatible: religion provides immutable answers, issues eternal prescriptions and proscriptions--a static condition of closed-mindedness; science poses questions, pursues and promotes evolving hypotheses--a fluid state of inquisitiveness.

Science searches for answers, religion invents them.

Dependent on proofs, science is dynamic; contrary evidence is welcome. Independent of proofs, religion remains static; contrary evidence is heretical.

Challenge scientific dogma and you may earn a Nobel Prize; challenge religious dogma and you earn eternal damnation.

Whenever science contradicts scriptures, believers insist that what the bible says isn't (necessarily) what the bible means; theologians simply (conveniently) reinterpret the offending passages. Odd that god has had so much difficulty making himself understood.

As science advances, religion must retreat (or at least detour).

If religionists would leave science to scientists, I'd wager that scientists would (gladly) leave religion to religionists.

Language-cop Citations

Presidential historian, on the Monica Lewinsky affair: "She almost caused Bill Clinton to lose his presidency." Yeah, like Nicole caused O.J. to lose his Heisman Trophy!

"Hillary cares about her zone of privacy." Translation: She has more to hide.

Lifetime Achievement Awards should be bestowed posthumously; otherwise, they're only Up-'til-now Awards.

For his first crime, he was condemned to death; for his second, he received 25 years in prison. According to the News, "He'll serve the two sentences consecutively"!?

Lactaid is "100% lactose-reduced." Is it safe to assume that means it's lactose-free?!

I am responsible for what I say, not for how it is received.

Show or Tell

Unless you're an accomplished terpsichorean, don't try to dazzle me with your footwork.

Trying to be clever is like trying to look beautiful--a failed attempt can render one less attractive.

Don't tell me, show me; then I'll understand.

REALITY is not your enemy; besides, you can't kill it.

Turn your back, REALITY will kick your keister; resist, REALITY will flatten you like a pancake.

REALITY is Reality stripped naked of wishful thinking.

As one's own Reality approximates REALITY, one approaches Enlightenment.

The Reality of the dung beetle is as valid as the Reality of the butterfly.

Each owns his own Reality and is primarily responsible for its care and maintenance.

REALITY always laughs last.

REALITY Check: Don Quixote was a crazy old coot!