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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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Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
— Robert Casey
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Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And…
— Malcolm X
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Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency…
— James E. Faust
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is…
— R C Sproul
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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled…
— Charles Darwin
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The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to…
— John McCain
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We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the…
— Harrison Ford
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With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever…
— Thomas Jefferson
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