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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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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 universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So...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

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Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggest...more

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However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God...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

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It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative be...more

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There is something distinctly odd about the argument, however. Believing is not something you can decide to do as a matter of policy. At least, it is ...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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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill ...more