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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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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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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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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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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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