• Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.

    Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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      but how did he manage to keep the right temperature, salinity, oxygen, luminosity, and nutriments suited for each kind of fish? Surely he was a master engineer and aquarist.