For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
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We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
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The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
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Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.
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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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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.
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
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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.
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