Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
RICHARD DAWKINSHuman suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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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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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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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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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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