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...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possibl...more

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I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diver...more

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, t...more

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What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

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However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God...more

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There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is ...more

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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill ...more

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We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God's valuing di...more