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

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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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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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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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If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we ...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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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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Religion is a distraction from true education.