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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

Richard Dawkins

The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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Beautiful Evolution Extreme Place Understand Universe World
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Arrange God Religion
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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Children Fact Inherit Majority Parents Regret World
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
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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Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
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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Atheist God Message People
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
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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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

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