Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
RICHARD DAWKINS
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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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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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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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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The 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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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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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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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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