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Water Is Two Parts Hydrogen And One Part Oxygen. What If Someone Says, “well, That’s Not How I Choose To Think About Water.”? All We Can Do Is Appeal To Scientific Values. And If He Doesn’t Share Those Values, The Conversation Is Over. If Someone Doesn’t Value Evidence, What Evidence Are You Going To Provide To Prove They Should Value It? If Someone Doesn’t Value Logic, What Logical Argument Could You Provide To Show The Importance Of Logic?

In The Year 2006, A Person Can Have Sufficient Intellectual And Material Resources To Build A Nuclear Bomb And Still Believe That He Will Get Seventy-two Virgins In Paradise.

It Seems To Me Patently Obvious That We Can No More Respect And Tolerate Vast Differences In Notions Of Human Well-being Than We Can Respect Or Tolerate Vast Differences In The Notions About How Disease Spreads, Or In The Safety Standards Of Buildings And Airplanes.

120 Million Of Us Place The Big Bang 2,500 Years After The Babylonians And Sumerians Learned To Brew Beer.

Despite A Full Century Of Scientific Insights Attesting To The Antiquity Of The Earth, More Than Half Of Our Neighbors Believe That The Entire Cosmos Was Created Six Thousand Years Ago. This Is, Incidentally, About A Thousand Years After The Sumerians Invented Glue.