It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
RICHARD DAWKINSEven 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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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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