"No educated person believes the Adam and Eve……" — Richard Dawkins
"No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic"
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God…
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's…
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just…
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