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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

Daniel Dennett

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Destruction Enemy Hit Mindset Panic Worst Yourself
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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Love Myself People Rate Thinking
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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Blessing God Gratitude Ideas Innovation Life Ourselves Worth
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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Brain Ourselves
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary Philosophy
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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Behavior Polite Rude Time Yourself
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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Beginning Purpose Reason World
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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Clear Detail Mistake Risk Time Yourself

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

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