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Many people have entrusted

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their decision-making to government. Bingo!

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Many people have also given that decision-making to the deity.

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They create a deity, then they say

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"He will make the most appropriate decision:

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prevent my house from burning down, prevent my children from being killed

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and help us along the way", but it's going to take time

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for people to take on the responsibility of managing

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this wonderful gift of nature: the earth

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water, all the wonderful things we have, top soil

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and we have to take care of the Earth. We have to assume responsibility.

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We have brains

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and the brains can be programmed in many different directions.

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They can go into the abstract region

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which has nothing to do with improving our lives.

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We can invent reasons for nature

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or we can say "I don't know how nature works"

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and hold that in abeyance, and try to find out.

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That's the difference between science and religion.

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Religion has answers.

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Many say "The Lord works in strange ways"

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when they can't account for anything.

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The scientist says "I don't know," and "What are you going to do about it?"

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He goes into a lab to try to find out. What's the best shape for a boat?

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What's the best arrangement for sails

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to get the most effective movement from the wind?

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He says "I don't know", so he sets up an experiment

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and the experiment is truth-seeking

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but tangibly truth-seeking

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but philosophy and theology, you sit back on an arm chair.

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You say "I guess the trees are here to give us oxygen."

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The scientist says "The trees are here. They produce oxygen

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and that enables us to survive." Yet, they're not here for that purpose

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because there are many remote islands that have trees

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without any humans, producing oxygen.

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There are many tidal waves that go over islands

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without people on them, so they're not there to punish people.

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(Interviewer) Humans are amazingly anthropomorphic.

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-Terribly so.  - Oh yeah, it's all about us.

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- My mother used to be like that. She used to say

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"The ant is going home to feed its young", and I said

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"How do you know that? Maybe it's going home to eat its young."

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Like the spiders, they mate, then the female eats the male.

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I'm not talking about pornography.

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I'm talking about digesting them.