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.
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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change 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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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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