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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
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.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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.
The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Evolution never looks to the future.