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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

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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Assumption Faith God Life Live
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Against Childhood Crime Religion Satisfaction
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Against Country Honesty Intelligence Opportunity Politics
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Born Die Lucky People
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
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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Atheist Disapprove Evolution Science
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
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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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Magic Reality Science
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Alone Earth Rebel Selfish
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
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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Capable Evolution Existence Principle Selection Theory

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