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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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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human…
— A.C. Grayling
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Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
— Andy Van Slyke
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first…
— Harrison Schmitt
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other…
— Alan Valentine
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
— Huston Smith
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it.…
— Peter Kreeft
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Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for…
— Mick Dodson
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery…
— Edward Abbey
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I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature.…
— Nolan Gould
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Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
— Diane Keaton
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I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors…
— Holly Marie Combs
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