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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.
People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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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