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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…
— Stephen Leacock
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Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,'…
— Paul Desmond
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The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.
— John Ankerberg
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There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or…
— Richard Dawkins
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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
— Stephen Leacock
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Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
— James Gleick
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