Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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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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