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One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
