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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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Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

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If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has eve...more

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

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So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. ...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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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to...more

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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily viola...more

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A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles, I am now about to...more

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but bli...more

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming...more

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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sen...more

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In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going...more

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A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, ...more

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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility t...more