As A Scientist, I Cannot Help Feeling

Every Child Should Have Mud Pies, Grasshoppers, Water Bugs, Tadpoles, Frogs, Mud Turtles, Elderberries, Wild Strawberries, Acorns, Chestnuts, Trees To Climb. Brooks To Wade, Water Lilies, Woodchucks, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Various Animals To Pet, Hayfields, Pine-cones, Rocks To Roll, Sand, Snakes, Huckleberries And Hornets; And Any Child Who Has Been Deprived Of These Has Been Deprived Of The Best Part Of Education.

Those Who Would Legislate Against The Teaching Of Evolution Should Also Legislate Against Gravity, Electricity And The Unreasonable Velocity Of Light, And Also, Should Introduce A Clause To Prevent The Use Of The Telescope, The Microscope And The Spectroscope Or Any Other Instrument Of Precision Which May In The Future Be Invented, Constructed Or Used For The Discovery Of Truth.

As A Scientist, I Can Not Help Feeling That All Religions Are On A Tottering Foundation. None Is Perfect Or Inspired.the Idea That A Good God Would Send People To A Burning Hell Is Utterly Damnable To Me. I Don't Want To Have Anything To Do With Such A God.

Obsolete Misleading Theologies Bear The Same Relation To The Essence Of True Religion That Scarlet Fever, Mumps, And Measles Do To Education.

What Is The Use Of Assuring Fundamentalists That Science Is Compatible With Religion. They Retort At Once, Certainly Not With Our Religion.