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- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
- Closed-Minded
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In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
- Disprove
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
- Go
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Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.
- Events
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
- End
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When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020