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- If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
- We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
- We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.
- You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to…
- Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely…
- There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never…
- A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand…
- It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
- ...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the…
- Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's…
- If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine.…
- With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,
- Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case,…
- It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it…
- With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to…
- Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a Marxist child or an Anarchist child or a Post-modernist child. Yet children are routinely labelled with…
- It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur…
- Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic…
- There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so…
- It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any…
- 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…
- 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…
- Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten…
- Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
- bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no…
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