The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Even 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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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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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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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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