We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSCreationists 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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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 a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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