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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 am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our ti...more

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People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

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I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're tol...more

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The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to con...more

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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and...more

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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...more

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More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied wit...more

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Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance