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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.

Daniel Dennett

It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
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Criticism Feeling Hurt Opportunity Religious Situation Win
Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Cost Law Object Science See
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Failure Imagination Mistake Necessary 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
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Care Knowledge Yourself
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
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
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Conscious Human Mystery Survive
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
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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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science

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