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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

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
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
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
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 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
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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Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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Diversity Enthusiasm Fact Opinion Science
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Desire Forsake Life Thankful Vain
The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
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
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Capable Experience Feeling Giving Human Science Wonder
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Blind Book Evidence Mind People Religious Revelation Switch Want
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Evidence Prejudice Private Public replace Science
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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People Religion True Wise

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