- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
- Fanatics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
- Colony
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
- Blind Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love romantic poetry.
- Drift
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- Nov 07, 2020
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
- Confirmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
- Disapprove
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love words.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
- Frogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
- Species
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a very, very unusual species.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural selection is anything but random.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
- Elated
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- Nov 07, 2020