A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think...
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
The truth is more magical – in the best and most exciting sense of the word – than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
I don’t want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn’t matter, because that still doesn’t mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.
I’ve been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won’t know it, and may even vigorously deny it.
What has ‘theology’ ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has ‘theology’ ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that ‘theology’ is a subject at all?
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.