We are a very, very unusual species.
From Richard Dawkins
It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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