I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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