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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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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm…
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before…
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who…
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If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74%…
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