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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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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.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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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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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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