In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.
From Michael Shermer
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
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