"I often wonder why leading fundamentalists - Billy Graham, for example - seem incapable of realizing how they commit the sin of pride when they refuse to acquire the kind of scientific knowledge necessary for a thorough understanding of certain doctrines of their faith. One can forgive medieval Christians for crowding into churches to pray that the plague be abated, thereby spreading the disease more rapidly, because none of them knew about microbes. One can forgive Luther and Calvin and Wesley for believing that God created the earth and all living things in six literal days, because science did not then have evidence to dispute it. Today, when a self-styled Christian resolutely refuses to inform himself about scientific truths which bear upon his faith, why is it that he cannot see his refusal as an insult to the very God of Truth he fancies he is serving?"
--Martin Gardner, The Flight of Peter Fromm, 1973
