Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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