Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

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One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

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But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

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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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The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

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