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Futurists falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic.

— George Gilder Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (2000)

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Let there be light, says the Bible. All the firmaments of technology, all our computers and networks, are built with light, and of light, and for light, to hasten its spread around the world.

Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (2000)

Academic scientists of any sort expect to be struck by lightning if they celebrate real creation de novo in the world.

From Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein to Richard Feynman and Charles Townes, the more men have gazed at light, the more it turns out to be a phenomenon utterly different from anything else.

Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (2000)

Gödel demonstrated that every logical scheme, including mathematics, is dependent upon axioms that it cannot prove and that cannot be reduced to the scheme itself.

I'm not pushing to have [ ID ] taught as an alternative to Darwin, and neither are they...

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