I was not a science major but I have read a lot on my own, and one of my heroes of rationalism is Carl Sagan. He wrote a book called Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. I love the book but I wonder why Sagan did not use a more powerful metaphor. […]
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Whenever I listen to a recording of my voice, I am always shocked. That is not me, I think. In my head I have no accent. I like to imagine I am self-created, aloof, and that I sprung from a vacuum. If my thoughts have an accent, they are more Queen Elizabeth than Honey Boo
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At 15 I no longer believed in God, but almost everything else in my life remained the same. No one knew and there was no one I could tell. I still went to church because my parents made me. The sun rose and set. My shaggy dog continued to greet me at the gate when
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At what point do you say, “Everything I have been taught is a lie, and the framework I have been given to make sense of my life, the world, and my place in it, is wrong?” And what does it take for that to happen? For me it happened when I was 15. And it
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