Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
RICHARD DAWKINS
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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We 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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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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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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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