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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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