Quotation of the Minute
"But 'chance' is only a word invented by humans to conceal our ignorance. If we perfectly understood all the laws of motion, we could infallibly predict whether a coin will come down heads or tails. A Christian believes that God does perfectly understand His own laws and knows which side up the coin will land, but Epicureans and neo-Darwinists believe that nobody knows!" Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982), p. 85.