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A. N. Wilson in Jesus and Robin Lane Fox in The Unauthorized Version (among
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Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens
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Always devise your rules as if you didn't know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.
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I'm not clever enough to be a physicist.
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SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.
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We're too stupid to decide on EU (that includes me)
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I think there really is a place for science in literature and I think that may be increasing
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If you're seen to criticise Islam you are often accused of racism, which is absurd.
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I'm all for offending people's religion. I think it should be offended at every opportunity
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evidence is the only good reason to believe anything
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The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.
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The genes are the master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.
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Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
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Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
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Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
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Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.
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Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.
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Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.
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There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.
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This not only misses the point, it is the precise antithesis of the point.
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Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53)
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you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
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Your DNA may be destined to mingle with mine. Salutations!
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Mutation may be random, but selection definitely is not.
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Darwin, however, saw his doubts as a challenge to go on thinking, not a welcome excuse to give up.
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If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
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Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. (p. 40)
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What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot? (p. 79)
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We should be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brain falls out.
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Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence.
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So whereabouts in my body might there be a black hole?
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Isn't Deepak Chopra just exploiting Quantum jargon as plausible-sounding hocus pocus?
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Eternity is best spent under a general anesthetic – which is what is going to happen.
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Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?
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Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?
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