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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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