Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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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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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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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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