

This is a normal and healthy part of the process of science. Second, ideas at the cutting edge of research (e.g., regarding new medical studies) may change rapidly as scientists test out many different possible explanations trying to figure out which are the most accurate.

First, press coverage tends to draw particular attention to disagreements or ideas that conflict with past views. There are several reasons for such apparent reversals. One month the newspaper warns you away from chocolate's saturated fat and sugar the next month, chocolate companies are bragging about chocolate's antioxidants and lack of trans-fats.
COSMIC JEWISH ZOMBIE TALKING SNAKE MAGICAL TREE QUOTE FREE
I was free free to think, to express my thoughts free to live to my own ideal free to use all my faculties, all my senses free to spread imagination's wings free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope free to judge and determine for myself free to reject all ignorant and cruel creeds, all the "inspired" books that savages have produced, and all the barbarous legends of the past free from popes and priests free from all the "called" and "set apart" free from sanctified mistakes and holy lies free from the fear of eternal pain free from the winged monsters of the night free from devils, ghosts, and gods.ĬORRECTION: Especially when it comes to scientific findings about health and medicine, it can sometimes seem as though scientists are always changing their minds.

There was for me no master in all the wide world not even in infinite space. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell, the dungeon was flooded with light, and all the bolts, and bars, and manacles became dust. “When I became convinced that the universe is natural that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. Why should I worship you and call you my God?

Why did you make the One True Church seem so obviously fraudulent if it was so important to my salvation? Why did you change your mind so often and about so many things that were supposed to be vital to our eternal welfare? Why did you seemingly go out of your way to make sure we couldn’t see the truth if we were honestly looking for it? Why did you send peaceful spiritual feelings to people who were worshiping all the wrong things, and withhold these feelings from others who were doing it all right? Why did you instruct me in my patriarchal blessing to seek an understanding of my world through science if I was not to use that understanding to evaluate my own faith? Why did you give me the ability to reason if you were only going to rise up and turn that ability against me? Was there really any other conclusion I could have come to? Finally, why would you judge me for making the only choice that made sense, given the circumstances that you placed me in? And if you really do all of these things then I only have one more question for you.
