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“The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.” quote by Richard Dawkins — Download Open image

“The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.”

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

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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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What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

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