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David Berlinski: The Devil’s Delusion

Socrates in the City

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Richard Waker's Argument From Darwin to Hitler

Stanislaw: How do you account for the very strong, what is evidently a strong prior against the existence of God among scientists? Stanislaw: Is it the Darwinian kind of? Look, look, why are we using such high-falutin terms? If you have a mafia protection racket in the Bronx, and there's a Dominican gang that threatens to invade your turf, how would you organize your prior probabilities? That's all it takes to explain the current state of the sciences. All right. My question is, how much should we rely on the scientists about the existing of the God as individuals? Should we do our own research? Then we should decide he's existed

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