Since Birds of a Feather
           Flock  Together, I would fly with....
 

a.  William of Ockham
 

In his writings, Ockham stressed the principle that "entitites must not be multiplied beyond what is necessary." This principle became known as Ockham's Razor. In philosophy, a problem should be stated in its basic and simplest terms.  In science, the simplest theory that fits the facts of a problem is the one that should be selected.
 

Thus, QBaal advises the young-earth creationists  to abandon variable speed light to account for  12 billion year old light reaching  a ten thousand year old earth  (created according to young earth creationists about the same time the universe and light were first created).
 

QBaal's mommy told him long ago "Keep it simple, ..."
So I did and immediately realized that Genesis 1 is purely and
simply a creation myth.
 

b.  Wm. Shakespeare
 

                        O, what a tangled web we weave,/
                   When first we practise to deceive!
 
 

c.  Michel Montaigne

          He who is not sure of his memory should not
                       undertake the trade of   lying.
 
 
 

d. Ken Miller
 

"I knew a nun while I was a graduate student in Colorado," he said, "who was also a biologist. She gave a lecture on evolution, which she fully accepted, and was asked during the question period how she could believe in a God who created through evolution. How did that fit with her theology?"
 

"Well, she replied," Ken continued, "that it sounded to her like the questioner believed in a God who wasn't a really superlative pool player. Imagine a pool player who says, 'I'm going to sink all the balls on the table,' and he does so - but only one at a time. 'My God,' said the nun, 'is like the pool player who lifts the triangular rack on the 15 balls, lines up the cue ball, and sinks all the balls with one shot.'"
"And that's my God, too," said Ken (biology professor).
 
                                                        Miller elabortion
 

 e.   Marcus Borg

In our time (2000), this stage is intensified and is often prolonged by the modern identification of truth with factuality. To use language I used in chapter 1, skeptics and biblical literalists alike in the modern world are often "fact fundamentalists": if something didn't happen, it isn't true.
 

Although the progression from practical naivete to critical thinking is virtually automatic, moving beyond the skepticism of a critical mode of thinking wedded to the modern world view is not. Many people get stuck in this stage, sometimes for their whole lives.
 

It is the ability to affirm, in words I have often quoted from a Native American storyteller, "I don't know if it happened this way or not, but I know this story is true." It is the ability to hear the Christmas
stories once again as true stories, as we did when we were children, even as we know that they are almost certainly not historical
narratives.

As T.S. Eliot wrote:

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

Without  using  the  phrase earlier  in  this  book, I  have  already provided  many examples  of  reading  the  gospels  in  a  state  of post-critical naivete. Among them are the Christmas stories, just mentioned and treated more fully in chapter 12. Reading the community's interpretation of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the ways I suggest in chapter 8 provides another example. So also the Emmaus Road story: I hear it as a true story, though I do not think that it reports a particular event on a particular afternoon.
 
 

Marcus Borg The Meaning of Jesus p.248
Publisher HarperSanFrancisco                                         (full document)
 
 

Folk I don't Want Flocking with Me...
 

a. Fanatical Supporters of Ancient
                                  Ptolemaic Mental Constructs

    The Greek astronomer Ptolemy (AD 100's) said that the planets moved in small circles called epicyles.  The epicycles moved in large circles call deferents.   Earth was near the center of all the deferents.
 

b.  The writer of Matthew  27:25
 

  And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our
                                                                                                           childen."
 

c. Proponents of Philosophical Materialism
 
 

... It is not that the methods and institutions of science                       somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of                      the  phenomenal world, but, on the contary, that we are                     forced by our a priori adherence to material causes
to creat an apparatus of investigation and  set of                                 concepts that produce material explanations, no matter                     how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the                       uninitiated.  Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for
we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
 
..Rather, the problem is to get the public to reject                                irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the                  demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to                            accept a social and intellectual apparatus,  Science, as                        the only begetter of truth.
 
  Richard Lewontin, review of Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World