The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
RICHARD DAWKINSMyths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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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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