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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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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power…
— Stephen Baxter
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There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a…
— Barnabe Rich
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Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even…
— Rafe Esquith
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There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with…
— Shirin Ebadi
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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she…
— Robert Burns
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I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
— Stephen Samuel Wise
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole…
— Hank Azaria
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The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our…
— Criss Jami
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The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man…
— Paul Valery
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