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Atheism is a minority position in today’s world. At least in the parts of the globe accessible to pollsters, most people believe in God.. . . . Consider, for example, the United States, where, despite the country’s constitutional commitment to the

“Invidia” between creator and creature can be directly competitive. Mythologies, so often a shorthand for logic, bear witness. A lighthearted maiden boasts of spinning a web more delicate, more prodigal of adornment that any Athena can weave. She is

*Reading does not make a man wise; it only makes him learned. *Respectability is the cloak under which fools cover their stupidity. *No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention *The man who in these conditions listens

There is a kind of immortality in every garden - Stillmeadow Daybook, Gladys Teber, 1899-1980 .......according to the legend that has persisted for a full century, Bateson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bateson spent most of that train ride immersed in an

The 'Penguin English Dictionary' defines a delusion as 'a false belief o impression'. Surprisingly the illustrative quotation the dictionary gives is from phillip e Johnson: "Darwinism is the story of humanity's liberation from the delusion that its

The pluralism of Empedocles (495-435 BC) was more modest. He argued that a small set of elements sufficed to explain the material nature of the world. Probably borrowing from his predecessors, he took water, air, and life, added a fourth element earth,