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“Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.”

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Author:Michael Ruse

“The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.”

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Author:Michael Ruse

“Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”

“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?”

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

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

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“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

“God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.”

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Author:Steve Fowler

“Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues that I should be surprised if he were right about everything, but it makes for a most stimulating read. The book is in a different league from Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, and deserves much greater success.”

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Author:Jeremy Shearmur

“Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.”