The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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