It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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