Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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