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.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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 regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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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 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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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