Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
RICHARD DAWKINSScience has its own magic: the magic of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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