Human Consensus

Human consensus does not generate reality.  Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

-- Ursula Goodenough (16 March 1943 -), professor of Biology and a leading proponent of Religious Naturalism and the epic of evolution, on the scientific worldview in "A Setback to the Dialogue: Response to Huston Smith" in Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 36, Issue 2 (June 2001), p. 201