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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Belief Delusion Evidence Faith Reason
The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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Chicken Egg Revolution Science
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Color Life Planet Reality Science Sleep
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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Brain Complex Conscious Model World
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Evil Religion Root
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Atheist Freedom Happiness Live Proper
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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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Believe Delusion Galaxy God Sleep Thinking
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
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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Argument
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
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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Acceptance Ignorance Literature Mathematics Science
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
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Disguise Inspection Selfish
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 only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Force Physics Science
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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Evolution Machine Molecule Science Survival Truth Vehicle
Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Cure Finding One Liner Religion Togetherness
It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Deep Deliver Music Passion Poetry Rank
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
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
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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Die Life
Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Comparison Evil Faith Greatness Virus World
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Doubt Gravity Jump Truth Version Window
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Admit Evolution Realize

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