I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
RICHARD DAWKINSReal 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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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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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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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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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The 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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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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In the beginning was simplicity.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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