- The water wasn't safe, so the English used drink beer
- By 1650 they had started drinking tea and coffee and since before they were drunk, the Enlightenment started when tea and coffee spread.
- From pub to coffeehouse
- The architecture of the space allowed ideas to have sex
- Been studying what environments breed ideas, patterns
- Chaotic environments
- Important ideas have long incubation periods, they fade into view
- Building barricades around ideas - copyright, patenting - which stifles many of them
- Noodling around, hacking
- Chance favors the connected mind - ideas that pop into your head by chance because people suggest reasons and uses for your ideas, stimulating your imagination
Dawkins has become outspoken in his atheism , coining the word "bright" (as an alternate to atheist), and encouraging fellow non-believers to stand up and be identified. intelligent design is creationism redressed creationists are right that evolution is hostile to evolution statistical improbability of the complexity of design - intelligent design but the intelligent designer wouldn't have made such a hash - why would the designer be bothered with disapproving of our sex lives, favor our side in the war Dawkins suggest rocking the boat - attack religion as a whole taboo of speaking ill about religion - Douglas Adams said, sacred ideas at the heart of religion, holy cows, you can support any operating system you want, but the challenge of religious ideas is off limits science and religion are corrosive to each other - religious explanations are trivial and improbably, teaches people to accept authoritarianism takes the example of famous scientists and imagines
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