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I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the co...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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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, t...more

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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to...more

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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 ...more

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Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to sugges...more

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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.