Her name was Jen Neh Civil

It seems like these fake facebook trolls pop up fairly often.  I redacted all the names for obvious reasons, but I thought that someone should publish that Jen Neh Civil was a fake account.  Also anyone can google her profile picture and come to the same conclusion.

PS - I am not an atheist.

Friday Quotes XXX (I feel so pregnable)

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I want euphoria! ~ Calvin and Hobbes

She got past my force field, my impregnable forcefield, I...I feel so pregnable. ~ Superboy (when Batgirl punched him)

David only nails Goliath in the Bible…in real life Goliath swats the rock away, stomps David into a mudhole, and goes home to his mansion. ~ Michael Newnham

...[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. ~ former University of Delaware handbook

...those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give ‘preferential treatment’ to people of color over whites...there is no such thing as ‘reverse racism.’ ~ former University of Delaware handbook

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. ~ Justice Robert H. Jackson - West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943).

Coito ergo sum

Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt. ~ (If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ~ (Who will guard the guards?) - Roman poet Juvenal

They will guard themselves against themselves. We must tell the guardians a noble lie. The noble lie will inform them that they are better than those they serve and it is therefore their responsibility to guard and protect those lesser than themselves. We will instill in them a distaste for power or privilege, they will rule because they believe it right, not because they desire it. ~ Plato

Late night ramblings on Phylogeny...

[I will probably source a lot of this later, but this is what I wrote in response to Phylogenic Charts.  A similar post is available here.  The chart is so difficult to read.  The file name is even Dino-Chart-Small.jpg.  He does not source the chart with anything other than the book title, Dinosaur Data Book.  As far as I can tell, this is the bibliographical data. 

Lambert, 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. New York: Avon Books.

"The Dinosaur Data Book" (1990) p. 125

The book was later reprinted in 1998 with somewhat of an update.[1]  Also, I mention Therizinosaurus were not being mentioned.  Apparently they are mentioned, but without complete skeletons they were thought to be carnivorous predators.  Anyways, here it goes:]

"According to the chart, everything changed incredibly fast for 30 million years, then many didn’t change for the next 150 million years!"

If I am reading your chart right, the numbers represent orders and clades of animals. The furthest to the right, #3, represents Crocodilians. Within that order, there are several families, genera, and species. "P" represents the famed long necked Sauropods which have many genera and species. If you were to zoom in on that infraorder you would find that evolutionists think they changed for the next 150 million years producing new genera and species. For example, lions are a species. Their genus includes tigers, leopards, and jaguars. Their family includes other cats like pumas and house cats. Their sub-order, Feliformia, includes also hyenas, mongooses, meerkats, etc... Their order, Carnivora, includes bears, seals, dogs, etc... It is misleading to say that the order of Crocodilians did not change when an order or infraorder contains a lot of diversity. Just look at "W" which represents the suborder Ceratopsians. They were both bipedal and quadrupeds.

Also, your chart was published in the "Dinosaur Data Book". When was it printed? The edition I found was printed in 1990, about 22 years ago. Has there been any more fossil evidence since then?

You quoted from What Evolution Is. If you continued the quote you would have noticed that he said:

The discovery of unbroken series of species changing gradually into descending species is very rare.

He then points out that fossilization is rare and most fossils remain buried, because they are not close enough to the surface. He does not seem to “support” your conclusion. His book is available on Scribd if you think that I am wrong on assessing his point of view.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/43553720/Ernst-Mayr-What-Evolution-is-Copy

The other book review that you cite also does not seem to support your conclusion since he is speaking in more a historical context.

May I ask, what is your view point? You point to this chart as evidence that “one thing, stayed one thing and never changed into anything else! What we see in the world today and what we read in the Bible is consistent and true.” As already mentioned “W” is Ceratopsians. Do you hold that transitioning from a biped to a quadruped is not changing? “O” is Prosauropods and “P” is Sauropods. Do you hold that quasi-quadruped prosauropods transitioning into sauropods is changing? If “W” is OK, then why is “O” to “P” not OK?

Your chart, which again I assume is from around 1990 says, “j-m are flesh-eaters collectively called therapods”. This statement is out of date. In the mid-90’s a feathered herbivore therapod clade was discovered called Therizinosaurs. They belong to “m” on your chart, the clades “Carnosaurs and Coelurosaurs”. Therizionosaurs, are in the clade, Coelurosaurs, and all posses sloth like giant claws. How can “m” which represents two parallel clades teach that “one thing stayed one thing”? Also, how is anything becoming a Therizinosaur not becoming a new thing?

Lastly #6 is birds. Does this prove that God created the Class Birds as “one thing stayed one thing and never changed into anything else”?

You said, “The fossil record actually contains things that are dated back to 400 million years and they are exactly the same as what we see today!” Are you talking about the Coelacanth genus Latimeria? There is no fossil record for the specific genus Latimeria. There is a fossil record for the order Coelacanth.

PS ~ The text on the chart reads:

Ruling reptiles. This family tree shows the likely evolution of dinosaurs, birds, crocodilians and pterosaurs from within the mixed group of early archosaurs called thecodonts. For explanations of names see chapters 2 and 3. A Triassic Period. B Jutassic Period. C Cretaceous Period. 1 Armored archosaurs. 2 Thecodonts. a Proterosuchians. b Erythrosuchids. c Rauisuchians. d Aetosaurs. e. Phyosaurs (alias parasuchians). f Ornithosuchids. g Euparkeriids. h Lagosuchids. 3 Crocodilians. 4 Pterosaurs. 5 Dinosaurs. i Herrerasaurs. 5A Saurischian dinosaurs (j-m are flesh-eaters collectively called theropods). j Deinonychosaurs. h Oviraptorosaurs. m Carnosaurs and coelurosaurs. n Segnosaurs. o Prosauropods. p Sauropods. 5B Ornithischian dinosaurs. q Fabrosaurids. r Scelidosaurs. s Stegosaurs. t Ankylosaurs. u Ornithopods. v Heterodontosaurids. w Ceratopsians. x Pachycephalosaurs. 6 Birds.

I still cannot read the dates.  The Triassic is generally about 50 million years, but he says the chart has only 30 million years.  My only explanation (without a legible copy of the chart) is that the chart begins with the emergence of dinosaurs in the mid-triassic.

Two Different Endings?

Yes, the theater was a gun free stone however:

• One, we do not know if any among the dead did have a concealed carry. 
• Two, we do not know if any among the living did have a concealed carry. 
• Three, what could they have been carrying that would have shot through his Kevlar? 
• Four, armed police were on the scene in 90 seconds. 
• Five, he is reported to have possibly fired off 60 rounds a minute. [1]  Even a Glock 19 only carries 19 rounds. 
• A 71 year old grandfather would have been shot dead. Williams went after two kids armed with a pistol and a baseball bat. [2]

Still in fairness, an expert thinks they could have gotten the head shot.

"The gun industry's going to take it on the chin," said Greg Block. "The Democrats are going to use this to make another run at the assault weapons ban."


Block is a California-based firearms safety trainer, certified by multiple branches of the federal government, with 29 years of experience. I called him because I'd just written about the differences between the Aurora shootings and other incidents, cited by Rep. Louie Gohmert, where armed civilians took out killers. The question I didn't really answer: How would an armed, trained person take out a gunman like James Holmes? Block was wondering the same thing. "All you need is one person there with a gun," he said. "If this went down in Texas or Arizona, he would have died quick."


There were members of the military in the theater, and possibly more people with training. There were, however, no guns, even though Colorado is a concealed-carry state because the Century theater where this took place was a "gun-free zone."


But what if someone had a gun? This might become an important question. We know, from recent shooting incidents, that legislation to expand concealed-carry areas is now more frequent than serious restrictive legislation. If someone in the theater were armed, how could he have reacted?


He could have drawn quickly, said Block. "I can draw and get shots off consistently in 1.3, 1.2 seconds," he said. "But it might take two seconds to fire. Why? I want to get down on my knees. You know the curvature between the two seats? That's where my muzzle is going to be. I find the V, the gap between the seats, and I move down into the row where I have a clear shot. Now, I could stand up over everyone else, and engage him. If I stand up, I can see him, he can see me. If I'm down low shooting between two seats, I have a tactical advantage. I can crawl between them, pop up, take a shot."


According to police, though, James Holmes had a series of tactical advantages. He was wearing body armor, and depending on what it was made from, it could have stopped most of the bullets fired by handguns. A ceramic plate, said Block, could stop a rifle round. "If he has a vest, you do a head shot. Body shots don't kill, headshots do." What could Holmes's riot gear helmet have stopped? "Not a darn thing. If I make a head shot I'm gonna go for soft tissue." Failing that, "I'll go for the pelvic girdle. You put three or four rounds in the pelvic girdle, you have fixed the problem."


Back to this specific situation, though. Holmes acted while a loud movie was playing in a dark theater. That, said Block could be "a great diversion" for someone trying to drop down and shoot back. But the "tear gas" -- we're still trying to figure out what kind -- absolutely gave Holmes the advantage. "All that's going to do is make people fish in a barrel," said Block. "Smoke would disorientate people. They may not even see the aisles." Any panic or movement from other people in the seats would be distracting, too. "But anybody from the military would hit the deck. They'd prone themselves between the chairs. That's how they're trained."


They'd still have to deal with Holmes's location. He started shooting from the front of the theater. "I'll be honest with you," said Block, "it's good tactics to be right in front of the screen. It's the equivalent of being against a wall. From a clock standpoint, from four o'clock to eight o'clock he's safe. Once he starts moving from seat to seat, he's a better target." But reports from the shooting suggest that the audience reacted slowly, thinking that the smoke and gunshots were a stunt. Another advantage for Holmes, buying him time, denying the chance for a quick response to anyone that wanted to act.


Again, though -- the theater was a gun-free zone. "That's where the chickens go," said Block. "They go to where people are unarmed." The shooter made a series of smart tactical decisions that minimized the risk of anyone stopping him. "I'm gonna guess one thing. He plays computer games. They'll find computer games at his house. He's not military. He's an educated kid." [3]

Guns versus spoons...

Spoons Don’t Make People Fat 

I am all for personal responsibility, but a gun is a far more effective tool than a spoon.  When I wanted to learn how to kill a man, I did not go to a swordsman.  I did not want to learn to use a Scottish claymore.   I did not want to grab a railroad tie.  I wanted to learn to use the most efficient method.  For me, that was a hand gun.  

A gun is far more effective than a spoon.  How many people can you feed with a spoon in a minute? Five minutes? Ten minutes? How many bites of food can a spoon hold?  Can you feed someone with a spoon through a wall?  Can you feed someone from more than 200 yards away?  How long will it take for you to feed someone until they are full?  How many times have accidentally fed someone or the wrong someone?

I get the personal responsibility angle, but we have to be honest that a gun can be a very efficient way to kill people.  Guns make otherwise mismatched opponents equal.  In thinking about this, I thought it might be best to cite a story from Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle to make a the point.  Set December 21, 1832, Darwin's voyage was sometimes fraught with adventure and excitement.

This is more in line with how I see a gun.  

At night we endeavoured in vain to find an uninhabited cove; and at last were obliged to bivouac not far from a party of natives. They were very inoffensive as long as they were few in numbers, but in the morning (21st) being joined by others they showed symptoms of hostility, and we thought that we should have come to a skirmish. An European labours under great disadvantages when treating with savages like these who have not the least idea of the power of firearms. In the very act of levelling his musket he appears to the savage far inferior to a man armed with a bow and arrow, a spear, or even a sling. Nor is it easy to teach them our superiority except by striking a fatal blow. Like wild beasts, they do not appear to compare numbers; for each individual, if attacked, instead of retiring, will endeavour to dash your brains out with a stone, as certainly as a tiger under similar circumstances would tear you. Captain Fitz Roy, on one occasion being very anxious, from good reasons, to frighten away a small party, first flourished a cutlass near them, at which they only laughed; he then twice fired his pistol close to a native. The man both times looked astounded, and carefully but quickly rubbed his head; he then stared awhile, and gabbled to his companions, but he never seemed to think of running away. We can hardly put ourselves in the position of these savages, and understand their actions. In the case of this Fuegian, the possibility of such a sound as the report of a gun close to his ear could never have entered his mind. He perhaps literally did not for a second know whether it was a sound or a blow, and therefore very naturally rubbed his head. In a similar manner, when a savage sees a mark struck by a bullet, it may be some time before he is able at all to understand how it is effected; for the fact of a body being invisible from its velocity would perhaps be to him an idea totally inconceivable. Moreover, the extreme force of a bullet that penetrates a hard substance without tearing it, may convince the savage that it has no force at all. Certainly I believe that many savages of the lowest grade, such as these of Tierra del Fuego, have seen objects struck, and even small animals killed by the musket, without being in the least aware how deadly an instrument it is.[1]

The crew of the Beagle understood the advantage that their firearms gave them over the natives.  Nearly more than a century and a half has passed since that night.  Guns have not gotten less superior, but more superior.  

Context matters...you didn't build that...part 2

http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=33411

I recently wrote a post about how some were misrepresenting the President's recent speech at Roanoke, Virginia.  I mentioned that the theme in question was one of the President's common themes.  I found another example from a November 30, 2011 speech given at Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Now, I mean, I don’t want to exaggerate. It’s not like they’re volunteering. (Laughter.) But if they’re asked, if they feel like it’s going to help middle-class families, help grow the economy, help to reduce the deficit, they’re willing to help. I can’t tell you how many well-to-do folks I meet who say, look, America gave me a chance to succeed. Somewhere along the line, somebody gave me a good education. Somewhere along the line, somebody gave me a college scholarship. Somewhere along the line, somebody built the information and transportation networks that have helped my business grow. Somewhere along the line, somebody gave me a shot. And so now it’s my turn to do the next generation that same good thing. I’ve got to give something back to them as well. (Applause.) [1]

I was challenged to find an example where the President diminished his own accomplishments, by crediting others with his successes.  I hope this counts.  

Again his point is that we all have had help along the way.

PS - Supposedly, he stole this idea from this video of Elizabeth Warren.

Context matters...you didn't build that...

If you have been on the internet lately you may have noticed a meme taken from a recent speech Obama gave in Roanoke, Virginia.  Recently, I found out that a well known preacher blocked me on twitter. I always gave him at least a hundred words of context and generally an hour or more (sometimes three hours) of his unedited lectures and sermons. If I, a "Pharisee", a "Sadducee", cannot bring myself to criticize someone out of context, what do you think I think about pulling a sentence or two out of a paragraph and sometimes not even quoting the entire sentence? Unfortunately Jesus never taught people to take people in context.

"You didn't build that!" is half a sentence taken from the following section of Obama's speech.  At the most I have only seen the two sentences in bold quoted.

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.

So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together. (Applause.)

So all these issues go back to that first campaign that I talked about, because everything has to do with how do we help middle-class families, working people, strivers, doers -- how do we help them succeed? How do we make sure that their hard work pays off? That’s what I've been thinking about the entire time I've been President. [1]

The problem is that I agree.  No man is an island unto themselves.  I attend evangelical churches that forecast God's judgment and credit America's success with God's blessing.  I credit Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines a great deal for America's success.  My parents live in an area that the government cleared of malaria.  We have the world's best freight rail system.  Also, I am blogging on the internet.

  

This is one of Obama's common themes.  We all need each other.  In another speech, he put it this way. 

Now, I want to be very clear here. Nobody wants to punish success in America. The Republicans talk about class warfare. That’s -- our goal is to make success available for everybody. What’s great about this country is you’ve got a good idea, you’ve got a service that nobody else has thought of, you know what, go out there, start a business. (Applause.) Make money. I want everybody out there to be rich. That’s great. Anybody in America should be able to make it if they try. (Applause.)

But none of us make it on our own. Somebody -- an outstanding entrepreneur like a Steve Jobs -- somewhere along the line he had a teacher who helped inspire him. (Applause.) All those great Internet businesses wouldn’t have succeeded unless somebody had invested in the government research that helped to create the Internet. We don't succeed on our own. We succeed because this country has, in previous generations, made investments that allow all of us to succeed. (Applause.)

So this is the land of opportunity. But we have to remember -- those of us who have done well, we should all pay our fair share in taxes to contribute to the nation that makes our success possible. (Applause.) That’s not class warfare. That’s not an attack on anybody. That’s just common sense. That’s just fairness. [2]

Let's summarize. Did Obama say "you didn't build that"? Yes, but it clear that he meant, "when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."  Why is that clear?  He said it three to four sentences later.  

Please provide context.

So no single individual built America on their own. We built it together. We’re one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all -- (applause) -- and with responsibilities to each other as well as to ourselves. And right now, we’ve got to meet those responsibilities in this time of great challenge. [2]

Friday Quotes XXIX (Oh no, not again)

I wanted to be a jedi! ~ Ned - Pushing Daisies This is one of the best battle cries ever! I laughed so hard last night.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Master and Saviour of us all, stands not for peace at any price, but for righteousness at any cost. ~ Bishop Manning

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ~Thomas Jefferson

It makes me feel like Ron Paul, mayor of crazy town ~ Glenn Beck

They think they can holler, "The bogeyman's coming!" every four years, and conservatives will get on board. ~ Richard Viguerie

I'm rather jealous of that power...I don't know on what basis we can allow some international court to decide what is the responsibility of this court, which is the meaning of the United States law. ~ Justice Scalia on the World Court dictating US law

Coalitions spawned by religious movements are more ideological than partisan. ~ Robert William Fogel

Let's start by opening our eyes and recognizing that if there ever was a monolithic "black America" -- absolutely and uniformly deprived and aggrieved, with invariant values and attitudes -- there certainly isn't one now. ~ Eugene Robinson - "The End of Black America" -Realclearpolitics - 10/09/07

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C.S. Lewis

But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation of action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours, the multiplicity of authorities in the American Constitution would long ago have brought it to a bad end. ~ The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot 1867

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. ~ The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams pg 134

Ronald Reagan versus John Wayne

REAGAN ANGERED JOHN WAYNE
AP
Published: March 16, 1987

John Wayne, staunch Republican though he was, wrote letters bluntly criticizing Ronald Reagan and praising Jimmy Carter for their stands on the Panama Canal.

The letters and Mr. Carter's responses are among more than six million documents on file at the library of the Carter Presidential Center here.

Mr. Wayne, the movie star who died in 1979 when he was 72 years old, took Mr. Carter to task on many issues.

However, he was one of Mr. Carter's staunchest supporters on the Panama Canal Treaty, which turned over to Panama the canal built by the United States near the turn of the century.

Mr. Wayne was a close friend of the late Panamanian leader, Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos Herrera. Mr. Wayne's first wife, Josephine, whom he divorced in 1946, was a native of Panama.

In a letter to Mr. Reagan dated Nov. 11, 1977, a copy of which was sent to Mr. Carter, the actor accused Mr. Reagan of spreading untruths about the Panama Canal Treaty in letters to his supporters.

''Now I have taken your letter, and I'll show you point by goddamn point in the treaty where you are misinforming people,'' Mr. Wayne told Mr. Reagan. ''If you continue these erroneous remarks, someone will publicize your letter to prove that you are not as thorough in your reviewing of this treaty as you say or are damned obtuse when it comes to reading the English language.''

He signed the letter ''Duke'' and enclosed with it a five-page rebuttal - written on the stationery of the Republican National Committee - of Mr. Reagan's stand on the canal issue.

Mr. Wayne wrote Mr. Carter in support of his stand on the treaty and the President wrote back in gratitude, saying, ''Your letter is great - tough and factual.'' [1] 

Bachmann makes Muslim Brotherhood claims

Friday Quotes XXVIII

OK my brief disclamer: I do not agree with all the quotes I post, I just find them interesting. I love the athiest quotes, because it gives me a perspective on athiests in their own words. Want to shut them up read the whole bible and don't become an athiest.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Either the Bible will keep you away from sin, or sin will keep you away from the Bible I am convinced that a downgrading in priority of . . . prayer and biblical meditation is a major cause of weakness in many Christian communities. . . . Bible study demands pondering deeply on a short passage, like a cow chewing her cud. It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. ~ Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-1993)

Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. ~ James Madison

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ~ Thomas Jefferson

If you have no Bible, you have no way to live. Those who either don't have the Bible or choose to curse the Bible are lost. They have nothing to guide them to redemption. I feel sorry for them. ~ Rosa Parks

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. ~ attributed to Isaac Asimov

Take some time and put the Bible on your summer reading list. Try and stick with it cover to cover. Not because it teaches history; it doesn't. Read it because you'll see for yourself what the Bible is all about...it sure isn't great litterature. If it was published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are a few vivid scenes and quotable phrases, but...there's no plot. No structure. There's a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are...painfully one-dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the Bible for a moral code. It applicates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because...we need more atheists—and nothing will get you there faster than reading the damn Bible. ~ Penn Jillette

We're not non-believers. We do believe in a lot of things, but they come from other experiences and other encounters, not necessarily a book. ~ Hemant Mehta (ebay atheist)

I think atheists are a lot more confident than Christians in their own abilities to make things happen. ~ Hemant Mehta (ebay atheist)

Friday Quotes XXVII

Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions. ~ Aristotle

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong. ~ Albert Einstein

For as bats' eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature the most obvious of all. ~ Aristotle

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exists. Hence the fictions that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles. ~ Bacon