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...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possibl...more

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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. W...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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I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

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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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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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... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved organs: on-board computers...more

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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

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Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to sugges...more

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Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cos...more

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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then ...more

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential peopl...more