By Sam Harris.
When scientists don't know something -- like why the universe came
into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed -- they
admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn't know is a profound
liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based
religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be
found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves
for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology,
chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering
questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it,
atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn't
arrogance; it is intellectual honesty.
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