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Exploratory Research Is Really Like Working In A Fog. You Don't Know Where You're Going. You're Just Groping. Then People Learn About It Afterwards And Think How Straightforward It Was.

A Knowledge Of The True Age Of The Earth And Of The Fossil Record Makes It Impossible For Any Balanced Intellect To Believe In The Literal Truth Of Every Part Of The Bible In The Way That Fundamentalists Do.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clicks Into Place. One Immediately Sees How Many Previously Puzzling Facts Are Neatly Explained By The New Hypothesis. One Could Kick Oneself For Not Having The Idea Earlier, It Now Seems So Obvious. Yet Before, Everything Was In A Fog.

I Also Suspect That Many Workers In This Field [molecular Biology] And Related Fields Have Been Strongly Motivated By The Desire, Rarely Actually Expressed, To Refute Vitalism.

If Revealed Religions Have Revealed Anything It Is That They Are Usually Wrong.