Thursday, 12 March 2009

A proof of God's love?

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

Often mis-attributed to Benjamin Franklin the
actual (?) quote is:
"Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Satires and Bagatelles, p.18, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Illustrated by Paul McPharlin, Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2005
ISBN 9781419105876,140 pages.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

The 'limits' of science

"Science tends to keep the complexity of an explanation to the minimum needed to explain the available facts (a principle known as Occam's razor), but one should not confuse this simplest explanation with reality. It is merely a station along the way to ever more complex realities." Tschinkel, W (2006), The Fire Ants, p.327