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I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.
Peter Atkins
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Peter Atkins
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 10
Chemist
Non-Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Amersham
Buckinghamshire
Peter William Atkins
Peter W. Atkins
P. W. Atkins
Professor Peter William Atkins
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Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that God did it is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation.
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Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.
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A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.
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Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
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We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.
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Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.
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