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All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...more

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Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

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The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

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So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. ...more

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If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we ...more

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

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Religion is a distraction from true education.

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It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they...more

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There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

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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 bli...more

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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status tha...more

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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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, ...more

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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility t...more