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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.

Richard Dawkins

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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Atheist Belief Evidence Faith Result Science
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.
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Benefit Choose Education Science Technology
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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Essence Life Probable Science
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory
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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Atheist Delusion Insanity People Religion Suffering
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
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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Born Die Lucky People
There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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Poetry Real Reality
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Divine Elegance Ideas Reality Science Universe
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Belief Institution Passage Power Religion Time Truth
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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Arrange God Religion
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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Atheist Creation God Knowledge Science Seek Truth Understand

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