I threw out what I thought was a preposterous figure for a salary, and when I got home there was a message saying it had been accepted. (discovermagazine.com)
Filling his young little mind with the idea that we're just a product of chance (which is a preposterous idea, btw) and that life really has no meaning, as opposed to the truth that we are all created by a God who is Our Father and loves and cares for us and to whom we were created to return after this short life is truly «child abuse». (religion.blogs.cnn.com)