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 DAWKINSLet 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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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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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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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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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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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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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