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David Berlinski: The Devil’s Delusion

Socrates in the City

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The Limits of Our Power

In book after book, physicists and biologists have argued that the religious beliefs of mankind are now have always been and will always be in error. This despite the curious fact that not one of the great physical theories mentions the existence of God or its premises. I did this as an intellectual exercise just to test my own intellectual strength. Every man is curious about the limits of his power. Is he not? That's changed. It's true that all men at some time doubt the existence of the deity and some men at all times doubt theexistence of the deity. We grope, we're in the dark, we're not sure of what we're doing. What is so interesting is to

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