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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.

Richard Dawkins

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.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
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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Book Contradict Evidence Throw True
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Intensity Opinion Truth
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
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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Animal Evidence Evolution Force Science Survival
Science is the poetry of reality.
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One Liner Poetry Reality Science
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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Against Religion Satisfaction Teaching Understand World
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Life Responsiblity
The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Beautiful Puzzle Solution
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Biology Evolution Fact History Ignorant Science
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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Encouragement Evolution Teaching Theory
Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Destroy Evolution Existence Past Quality

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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