"Is Religion Inevitable?" - Richard Dawkins Reveals All
The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
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The Substitution Hypothesis: Should Rational People Step Out of the Way?
In an ideal world, people would proportion their confidence and the belief to the evidence they have for the belief. But humanity is sloppy and messy. There are certain delusions that are better for people to believe in mass than others. The last decade has shown that we now have wide-scale institutional capture of our institutions including academic institutions. I've been thinking about how do you create a prophylactic to prevent an institution from succumbing to what's morally fashionable?
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