American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
RICHARD DAWKINSWe 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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