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Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
Public sharing is an important part of science.
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
Saddam Hussein could have provided irreplaceable help to future historians of the Iran/Iraq war, of the invasion of Kuwait, and of the subsequent era of sanctions culminating in the current invasion.
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
Segregation has no place in the education system.
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
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