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?

Quote by Richard Dawkins

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in....

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in....

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and...

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and...

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has...

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A...

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity...

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity...

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has...

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has...

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically...

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically...

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or...

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or...

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the...

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the...

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for...

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a...

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature,...

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature,...

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of...

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of...

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are...

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are...

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of...

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of...

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory...

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory...

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.