The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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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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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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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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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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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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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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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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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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 interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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 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 important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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