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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Important Mathematics
Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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Brain Deep Drop Open Minded
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
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
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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Born Chance Generosity Science Selfish Understand Upset
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
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Change Thinking True
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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Book Contradict Evidence Throw True
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Children Education Evidence Thinking
Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Stop Truth Unfortunately
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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Doubt Earth Evolution Sun Theory
Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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Agree Interesting Science
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
Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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Believe Faith Justify People Religious
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Children Disagree Evaluation Evidence Teaching Thinking
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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Building Evolution Gravity Jump Theory

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