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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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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,…
— Unknown Author
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He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and…
— Tom DeLay
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Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted…
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
— Alex Grey
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A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
— C.S. Lewis
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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans,…
— Anita Roddick
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the…
— Richard Tarnas
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Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if…
— Rolf Potts
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The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are…
— Rolf Dobelli
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