Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet 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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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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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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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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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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