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The old question of whether there is design is idle. the real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
-William James
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The Old Question Of Whether There Is

William James
The old question of whether there is design is idle. the real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. this conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. their every truth is not quite true. their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.
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By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. what kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? what kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? and - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?
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