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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
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2008
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50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
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2011
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Think: Why You Should Question Everything (Think, #1)
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2013
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14 editions
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50 Simple Questions for Every Christian
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2013
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Good Thinking: What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser (Think, #2)
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2015
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At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
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2018
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3 editions
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Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed
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Race and reality: What everyone should know about our biological diversity
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2009
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Damn You, Entropy!: 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes
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2024
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“...atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think. ...you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head. ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change).”
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“Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some sort of evidence of their god's existence? It makes no sense.
If the rivers of blood on Stalin's hands and Mao's hands, for example, are supposed to prove there is a god, then what do the oceans of blood on the hands of several thousand years' worth of religious kings, queens, presidents, popes, priests, generals, Crusadersm jihadists and tribal chiefs prove? It's not, of course, but if bodycount is somehow the measure of a god's likelihood of existence, then believers lose.
It is clear that humans are quite capable of killing with or without images of gods bouncing around in their heads. If anything, however, history suggests that the concept of gods makes the idea of massacring your fellow man (and women and children, too, of course) a lot easier to act upon.”
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If the rivers of blood on Stalin's hands and Mao's hands, for example, are supposed to prove there is a god, then what do the oceans of blood on the hands of several thousand years' worth of religious kings, queens, presidents, popes, priests, generals, Crusadersm jihadists and tribal chiefs prove? It's not, of course, but if bodycount is somehow the measure of a god's likelihood of existence, then believers lose.
It is clear that humans are quite capable of killing with or without images of gods bouncing around in their heads. If anything, however, history suggests that the concept of gods makes the idea of massacring your fellow man (and women and children, too, of course) a lot easier to act upon.”
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“If a beautiful sunflower is somehow supposed to be evidence of the Christian god, then what is a parasitic worm that eats children’s eyeballs evidence of?”
― 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian
― 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian
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“Find joy in existence. We live in good times. Now is somewhere between the beginning and the end of everything. . . . Collectively and individually, we must never stop exploring, imagining, experimenting, learning, and solving problems. This should not be difficult for any of us, because it is only human to do these things. This is who we are. It was the way of those remarkable Africans not so long ago in prehistory, and it can be your way now. The closer you look, the more you will see. The more you learn, the more alive and awake you will become.”
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
“We all believe silly things. What matters is how silly and how many.”
― 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
― 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
“You are not the sum of your Google searches, Amazon purchases, and Facebook likes. Your online activities should not define you as a person. But, increasingly, they do.”
― Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed
― Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed
“Racism is an avoidable culture clash masquerading as inescapable biological warfare.”
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
“In attempting to know, we engage in grand and meaningful acts. We use our human brains as time machines, to see and learn from the distant past and to travel forward thousands, millions, and billions of years. This young, patchwork organ that evolved to help ancient primates find food and water, maintain group relationships, achieve sexual intercourse, and imagine the next best tool now carries us to the very ends of the universe and beyond.”
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
― At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
