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I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
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I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.
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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
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The Universe does not owe us meaning.
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Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for natural methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.
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There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.
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Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.
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