Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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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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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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