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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… — Richard Dawkins
Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a… — Baron d'Holbach
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. — David Brooks
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. — Diane von Furstenberg
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. — Brian Tracy
It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what… — Ray Rice
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological… — Lynn Margulis
I'm sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn't. — Joan Rivers
The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts… — Donald Woods Winnicott
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the… — Jack Handey
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a… — David Hume
The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself. — Colin Blakemore
It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet. — Wilder Penfield
I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to… — Lauren Jackson
The logic of war seems to be if the belligerent can fight, he will fight. That leaders will not surrender until surrender is academic. How… — Thomas Powers
Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths. — Barack Obama

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