William Jennings Bryan on science and religion

    At first glance, William Jennings Bryan has it right in saying:

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of the storm tossed human vessel. (Quoted from The World’s Most Famous Court Trial: Tennessee Evolution Case, by John Thomas Scopes. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 1999. p. 338.)

    On second glance, religions are harmful moral rudders, by pressing on humanity the course of overrunning Earth with twenty times the number of people it should be holding at one time, forever killing Nature.

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