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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Daniel Dennett

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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Best Creation Goodness Place Thankful
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
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself 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
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
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Alone Children Desert Empathy
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Architecture Greatness Harm Music Pay Treasure
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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Literature Pronounce Word
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

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