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All life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...more

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To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, w...more

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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because o...more

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The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals.

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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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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because ...more

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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space....more

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Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

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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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I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

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Religion is a distraction from true education.

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It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they...more