The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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