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Tim Urban

What Tim Urban thinks about religion

@tim-urban · 25 positions · 0 changes of mind

Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  1. Our readingDogma, unlike first-principles reasoning, is not customized to the believer or meant to be critiqued and adjusted as things change.

    Their wordsDogma, unlike first principles reasoning, isn’t customized to the believer or her environment and isn’t meant to be critiqued and adjusted as things change.

    ↗The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Saucewaitbutwhy.com 3rd of 11 in this piece

  3. Our readingIf a chain of reasoning rests on a wrong inherited recipe, the conclusions built on top of it will be just as wrong.

    Their wordsAnd if the tenets of that church don’t truly resonate with you or reflect the current reality of the world—if it turns out that you’ve been working off of the wrong recipe—then whatever conclusions have been built on top of it will be just as wrong. As demonstrated by the flood geologists, a reasoning chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

    ↗The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Saucewaitbutwhy.com 9th of 11 in this piece