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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.

Richard Dawkins

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
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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Encouragement Evolution Teaching Theory
The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Force Physics Science
DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Dance DNA Music
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Belief Justice Misery Object Science World
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Atheist Believe God Humanity
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise
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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Children Conclusion Consequence Different Faith Learning
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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Cause Grasp Human Reality Suffering Tool Word
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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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
In the beginning was simplicity.
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Beginning One Liner Simplicity
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand

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