Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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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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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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