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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is…
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift…
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
— Lucretius
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the…
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The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for…
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A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their…
— Kevin Mattson
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Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some…
— Richard Dawkins
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without…
— Harry S. Truman
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.…
— Gautama Buddha
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your…
— Socrates
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
— Gilbert Highet
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Gold is a deep-persuading orator.
— Richard Barnfield
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