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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.

Richard Dawkins

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
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Desire Forsake Life Thankful Vain
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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Disturb Finding Matter People Place Reality Togetherness
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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Atheist God Religion
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
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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Atheist God Message People
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
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
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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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Color Life Planet Reality Science Sleep
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Express Ignorance One Liner Word
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Confusion Fun Myth Truth
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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Die Life
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

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