From: Monte Davis 

"Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens,
and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars
and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with
certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful
for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things,
claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all
that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as
ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn."

--St. Augustine

(via P.Z. Myers' 'Pharyngula' weblog, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ )

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