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I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

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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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Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

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All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

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If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.

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I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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