“Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.”

On the scientific worldview in "A Setback to the Dialogue: Response to Huston Smith" in Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 36, Issue 2 (June 2001), p. 201 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0591-2385.00350/abstract

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