I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we a...
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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
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Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Ful...
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We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized as...
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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer ...
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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with ...
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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, th...
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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make m...
