Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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