Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)
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Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
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Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
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