When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Evolution 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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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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