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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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The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
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I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way,…
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The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a…
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... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the…
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Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
— Chuck Grassley
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The media is supposed to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the most part, neglected to…
— Janeane Garofalo
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Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with…
— Jim Keith
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Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.
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The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and…
— Arthur J. Deikman
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
— Dan Rather
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to…
— Barton Gellman
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And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control…
— Milos Forman
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