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For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch ...

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Michael ShermerWhy People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience

As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The val...

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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction...

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One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had id...

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To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecess...

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Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

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Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; an...

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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the ...

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People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. B...

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A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certa...

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Isaac AsimovAdding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of Science