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“Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.”

Daniel Dennett

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I…

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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

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Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was…

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