The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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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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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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