Rationality Tied To Moral Decency Is The

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.

I’m A Skeptic Not Because I Do Not Want To Believe, But Because I Want To Know.

Anecdotal Thinking Comes Naturally; Science Requires Training.

We Think Of Our Eyes As Video Cameras And Our Brains As Blank Tapes To Be Filled With Sensory Inputs.

Science Is The Best Tool Ever Devised For Understanding How The World Works.