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The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .
There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.
Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
Atheists are the new gays; in the closet and pretty much disqualified from public office.
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.
... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.
My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.
You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.