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'The most common of all follies,' wrote H. L. Mencken, 'is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.' In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints... and gods.

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As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.

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Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

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