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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
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There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
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Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
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I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
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Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
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The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the…
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community…
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have…
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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too…
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as…
— Jacques Monod
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The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the…
— Jim Cymbala
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of…
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