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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…
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If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming…
— Kurt Cobain
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace…
— Bill Frist
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The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations…
— Amartya Sen
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There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the…
— Michael Novak
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It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial…
— Ronald Reagan
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How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve…
— Ronald Reagan
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The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
— George W. Bush
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In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
— Ronald Reagan
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And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets,…
— Robert Wright
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Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a…
— James Fitzjames Stephen
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
— Paul Bloom
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