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It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.
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Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Public sharing is an important part of science.
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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
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Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
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Segregation has no place in the education system.
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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
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The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
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The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
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We are a very, very unusual species.
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We have the power to turn against our creators.
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