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#110 — The Change Artist

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is Evolution True, We All Evolve From Pond Scum?

You actually don't have to be irrational across the board to be a religious maniac. You just have to have an initial down payment of irrationality on the basic premise that, say, this single book was dictated by the creator of the universe. Once you believe that, then you can put all of your remaining rationality to work trying to make sense of the text and getting it to square with all the inconvenient fact that come your way from the wider world. And that is one of the people i met there. Was fascinating, you as an astro physicist, and spent all his time doing just that. He did believe that the the universe was billions of lightly years across, so how did he

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