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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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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
— Diane Abbott
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I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.'…
— George H. W. Bush
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Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now
— Drake
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In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search…
— Louis Agassiz
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
— Heinz Pagels
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating…
— Noah Webster
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I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
— Joe Lieberman
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