It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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