Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
RICHARD DAWKINSDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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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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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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