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I Agree With People Like Richard Dawkins That Mankind Felt The Need For Creation Myths. Before We Really Began To Understand Disease And The Weather And Things Like That, We Sought False Explanations For Them. Now Science Has Filled In Some Of The Realm – Not All – That Religion Used To Fill.

By The Time We See That Climate Change Is Really Bad, Your Ability To Fix It Is Extremely Limited... The Carbon Gets Up There, But The Heating Effect Is Delayed. And Then The Effect Of That Heat On The Species And Ecosystem Is Delayed. That Means That Even When You Turn Virtuous, Things Are Actually Going To Get Worse For Quite A While.

There's A True Schizophrenia Where If You Say To Voters, You Know, Do You Think The Federal Government Spends Too Much Money And They Should Spend Less, They Say Yeah, Absolutely. Then You Name Specific Things, Like Pell Grants For Students And They Say, No, Not That. How 'bout Nih, Medical Research Funding? Nah, You Really Shouldn't Cut That. And Pretty Soon You've Proved That What The American Public Is Against Is Arithmetic.

In Ninth Grade, I Came Up With A New Form Of Rebellion. I Hadn't Been Getting Good Grades, But I Decided To Get All A's Without Taking A Book Home. I Didn't Go To Math Class, Because I Knew Enough And Had Read Ahead, And I Placed Within The Top 10 People In The Nation On An Aptitude Exam.

I Never Took A Day Off In My Twenties. Not One.