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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Richard Dawkins

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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Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Crime Victim
Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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God Religion Science Suppose Wonder
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Die Life
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
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
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
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Atheist Authority Comparison Independence Organization
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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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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Character Condition Survival

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

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