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So if morality is innate, it's certainly malleable.

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One child dead because of superstition is one too many.

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Blasphemy and heresy are terms of religion, not science.

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Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

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What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.

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Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

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In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

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Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

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After all, what new insights has religion produced in the last century?

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If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?

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In the end, a theory that can't be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.

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Ironically, as the credibility of creationists grows smaller, their voices get louder.

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The interest I have in believing in something is not a proof that the something exists.

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It doesn't trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.

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Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.

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Science has a huge advantage over other ways of knowing : built-in methods of self-correction.

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We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

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You can find some religions without creationism, but you can't find creationism without religion.

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Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close.

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If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

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It is time to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term person of faith as a compliment.

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The orderliness of nature—the so-called set of natural laws—is not an assumption but an observation.

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These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

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It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

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Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

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He is a dissimulator, a back-pedaler, a coward, and a self-serving ignoramus. In other words, he's a politician.

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The most important component of the incompatibility between science and religion is religion's dependence on faith.

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That doesn't mean that the religious completely abjure evidence. If it supports their preconceptions, they'll accept it.

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Any knowledge incapable of being revised with advances in data and human thinking does not deserve the name of knowledge.

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The methodological conflicts between science and religion cannot be brokered, for faith has no reliable way to find truth.

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