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.
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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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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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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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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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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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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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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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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