Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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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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