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One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science...

Sean Carroll

One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science...

Tags: academia, irreligion, irreligious, knowledge, science, science and religion, superstition, understanding, universe

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent...

Sean Carroll

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent...

Tags: human nature, humanity, science

About Author
Sean Carroll may refer to:

Sean B. Carroll (born 1960), American biologist
Sean M. Carroll (born 1966), American physicist
Seán Carroll (1892–1954), Irish Sinn Féin politician
Sean Carroll (police officer), involved in the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

Sean Carroll

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

Tags: science, the pointless universe

Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through sc...

Sean Carroll

Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through sc...

Tags: atheism, atheist, cosmology, materialism, reality, science, science and religion