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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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We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace…
— Wangari Maathai
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Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.
— Mark Lynas
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[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were…
— Lionel Tiger
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
— Warren Farrell
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
— James Lovelock
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the…
— Jonathan Sacks
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By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.
— Mark Pagel
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