The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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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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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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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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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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