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The quote contrasts modern believers with ancient civilizations by saying that many people accept a creation timeline that is much newer than the one suggested by older human history. It uses beer-making by the Babylonians and Sumerians as a marker of how long ago those societies already existed. The point is to question a literal reading of religious chronology.
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About Sam Harris
American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host
Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host. He became widely known for his criticism of religion and is often grouped with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism. His work ranges across rationality, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Much of his public writing and speaking returns to questions about how people think, what they believe, and how reason should shape public life.
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