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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.

Richard Dawkins

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality
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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Atheist God Religion
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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Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Atheist Discourage People Reason Religious Time
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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Assumption Faith God Life Live
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Against Childhood Crime Religion Satisfaction
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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Capable Evolution Existence Principle Selection Theory
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Die Life
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Atheist Believe God Humanity
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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Children Education Evidence Thinking
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science
In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
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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Absolute Believe Claim Evolution Ignorance Insane Stupidity
Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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Exploit Individual Ready Selfish System
American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Against Country Honesty Intelligence Opportunity Politics
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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Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
Science is the poetry of reality.
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One Liner Poetry Reality Science
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Discourage Faith Inquiry Meme Rational Unconsicious
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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Belief Evade Evaluate Evidence Excuse Faith Ignorance
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Divine Elegance Ideas Reality Science Universe

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