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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
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We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
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I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.
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But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
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The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God...
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For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
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We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
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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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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
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Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
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Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
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In science, all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.
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Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
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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 activism.
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
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To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.
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So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.
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Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism.
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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 with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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(age 69)
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