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 diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st cen...
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
The fact that we slowly apprehend our world, rather than suddenly discover it, should not subtract from its wonder.
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, d...
Much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and...
یک نمونه آن پرسش فلسفی قدیمی است که میگوید: آیا تو هم مثل من قرمز میبینی؟ شاید آنچه برای تو قرمز مینماید برای من سبز باشید یا اصلاً رنگی باشد که در خیال من هم نمیگنجد! فیلسوفان این پرسش را در زمره...
Science is the poetry of reality.
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to the Christian majority’s private liking.
I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to...
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel tha...
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