If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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