He has described the Young Earth creationist view that the Earth is only a few thousand years old as "a preposterous, mind-shrinking falsehood", and his 1986 book, The Blind Watchmaker, contains a sustained critique of the argument from design, an important creationist argument.
For those who prefer intimate movies, this is a cause for dismay; for those who unashamedly like their cinema loud, bombastic and wedded to preposterous fantasy, mind-bending glimpses of the future and/or synapse-searing adventure, 2012 has been a vintage year.
Silverman said, and I think I can remember the quote almost exactly, "Ideas that would seem preposterous in the minds of another man could become wonderful and even profitable if undertaken for the purpose of perpetuating your own entertainment property".
(Politico's Ben Smith today detailed Sinclair's "27-year criminal record, with a specialty in crimes involving deceit").. Of course, the club had made clear for some time that it should not be viewed as endorsing Mr. Sinclair's claims simply for having agreed to host his mind-numbingly preposterous litany -- heavens, no!
"With all that in mind it's preposterous that a tenant living and paying rent in any property for more than 30 years should have their rent more than doubled to the 'market rate'.
Enter Mr. Russell Beale's George, his wincingly fastidious manner and preposterous perm putting one in mind of an overbred Pekinese with a starring role in some celestial dog show.
The major influences on George W Bush's Pentagon and National Security Council were men such as Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami, experts on the Arab and Islamic world who helped the American hawks to think about such preposterous phenomena as the Arab mind and the centuries-old Islamic decline which only American power could reverse.
When you consider that mental health is built so much on understanding the intricacies of the human mind, it's preposterous to think that those working in mental health wouldn't seek a deeper understanding of their clients.
Critics found his idea preposterous.
Nor was there necessarily anything preposterous about his conviction that mind-expanding drugs might be worth looking into.
