Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe 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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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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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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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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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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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