Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, ... Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, that the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings.Richard Dawkins
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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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.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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