The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINSI cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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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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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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