"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom
of it too?" —Douglas Adams
People often write heartfelt pieces about the personal history of a certain belief of theirs. Virginia Heffernan recently attempted just that on her blog, when she felt an urge to explain …
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What would it take for you to believe in bigfoot? Grainy footage of a Sasquatch
spying on campers? Or one
streaking across a dark highway? A ruddy
footprint in the mud? Not good enough?
How about a
genome sequence?
Well, now one exists. Allegedly.
This has to be one of …
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Science, art, philosophy: rational appreciation of the natural world
