By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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But Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary theorist at Oxford, said that even scientists who were believers did not claim evidence for that belief. The most they will claim is that there is no evidence against, ... which is pathetically weak. There is no evidence against all sorts of things, but we don't waste our time believing in them.Richard Dawkins
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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