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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

Richard Dawkins

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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Biology Children Expectation Human Moral Nature Teaching
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
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Children Dangerous Deliberate Faith Innocent Vulnerable Wrong
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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Atheist God Religion
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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Decision Ideas Life Stop Trick
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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Adult Alteration Control Development Evolution Program
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
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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Children Education Evidence Thinking
Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Choose Indeed Life Wonderful
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Act Disguise Inspection Selfish
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
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Advocate Ban Religion Tolerance
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
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
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
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Atheist God Message People
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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