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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious... →
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so... →
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are... →
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather... →
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal... →
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global... →
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction... →