It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death โrates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for โnaturalโ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.
Richard DawkinsCreationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
Richard DawkinsTo an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
Richard DawkinsEffective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity.
Richard DawkinsTo be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
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