The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -- or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously.
Nature is … an excellent tinkerer, not a divine artificer.
History is complex. It cannot be reproduced in a flask.
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