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If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction...more

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I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are co...more

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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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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...more

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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

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There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is ...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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We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God's valuing di...more

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