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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
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Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?
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Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely tuned.
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Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
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Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.
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You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
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It's about time we start criticizing faith.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
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The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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