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“The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.”
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“The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.”
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“What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?”
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“Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“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?”
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“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”
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“No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.”
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“Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.”
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“Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things”
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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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