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“Look at our civilizations,” Gau said. “We’re all the same size because we limit each other through war. We’re all at the same level of technology, because we bargain, trade and steal from each other. We all inhabit the same area of space
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“All of this suggests that lack of religious belief is a side effect of doing science. And as repugnant as that is to many, it’s really no surprise. For some people, at least, science’s habit of requiring evidence for belief, combined with its culture of pervasive doubt and questioning, must often carry over to other aspects of one’s life—including the possibility of religious faith.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
“We read to know we're not alone.”
― Shadowlands: A Play
― Shadowlands: A Play
“My claim is this: science and religion are incompatible because they have different methods for getting knowledge about reality, have different ways of assessing the reliability of that knowledge, and, in the end, arrive at conflicting conclusions about the universe.”
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
― Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
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