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“Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.”

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

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The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

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“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…

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“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…

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“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries.90 This may explain some of the sheer strangeness of the…

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The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that…

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The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,…

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Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

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What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I…

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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 answers, and…

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We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

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Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and…

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at…

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It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which…

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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

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Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s…

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In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote…

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin Ichimaru

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified…

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