Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
RICHARD DAWKINSPerhaps 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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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