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 DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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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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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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