If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
TIM MINCHINScience is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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