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- 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…
- I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless.…
- My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of…
- I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,
- Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they…
- The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very…
- It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means to a very,…
- All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.
- Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant…
- We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that…
- There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that…
- Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
- We are a very, very unusual species.
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great…
- It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
- I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.
- I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
- I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
- Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
- Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of…
- The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we…
- 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…
- We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
- I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at…
- My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly…
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