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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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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
— Herbert Spencer
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…
— Charles Darwin
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or…
— Robert Boyle
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Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal…
— Avicenna
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If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power…
— Unknown Author
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.…
— Thomas Paine
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