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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.

Richard Dawkins

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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