Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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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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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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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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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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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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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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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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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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