In the beginning was simplicity.
RICHARD DAWKINSToday the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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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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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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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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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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