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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.