"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits
suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth,
that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empire but it
is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of
skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and
removing a diseased religion and making way for truth."
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]