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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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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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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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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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