If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.
From Richard Dawkins
The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.
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