Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
From Michael Shermer
One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
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