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Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.


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The less you think, the more you believe.



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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.



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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.



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Science is the poetry of reality.



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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.





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