"All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
~ Richard Dawkins ~
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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.
"I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.
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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.
"…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...
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"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God...
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