‘Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality, that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.’
‘Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.’
‘Effective searching procedures become when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.’
‘Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.’
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Some quotes inside this book:
‘Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.’
‘Creationists have lost in the courts of law; they’ve long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they’ve got left.’
‘I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.’
‘However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.’
‘What’s wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?’
‘The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible, not just a God who sets the universe in motion but a God who cares about human beings, because we seem uniquely amongst creatures on the planet to have this far-developed sense of morality.’
‘My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.’
‘It’s about time we start criticizing faith.’
‘I don’t shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.’
‘I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden’
‘I’ve been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.’
‘God is the answer to all of those “How must it have come to be” questions.’
‘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.’
