Saturday, 17-May-2008 14:23:29 CDT
Quote of the Day:


... Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an

inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth.  Most notably I have

ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old.  Well, I

haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected

it.  There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between 

prejudice and postjudice.  Prejudice is making a judgment before you have

looked at the facts.  Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards.  Prejudice

is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious

mistakes.  Postjudice is not terrible.  You can't be perfect of course; you

may make mistakes also.  But it is permissible to make a judgment after you

have examined the evidence.  In some circles it is even encouraged.

		-- Carl Sagan, "The Burden of Skepticism"






"Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context."