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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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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…
— Michael Shermer
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Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is…
— Joyce Johnson
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If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
— Rumi
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History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products…
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
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I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with…
— Sheryl Lee
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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an…
— Peter McWilliams
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
— David Lynch
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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
— David Lynch
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You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough…
— Anne Rice
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of…
— Carson McCullers
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Every human struggle will be replaced by infinite joy.
— Simon Quperlier
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