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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

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We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and ou...more

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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.

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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disj...more

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-f...more

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The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: ...more

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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a wor...more

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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way ...more