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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
- Blind Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love romantic poetry.
- Drift
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
- Confirmed
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- Nov 07, 2020