Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith 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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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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