I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by … - Richard Dawkins

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Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

Richard Dawkins

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

Inspires, Names, People, Science, Sincere, Thinking

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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

God, Religious, Atheist, Bully, Genocidal, Unforgiving

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Faith, Definitions, Belief, Reason, Evidence, Delusion

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Jumping, Evolution, Building, See, Gravity

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. . . we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

Alive, Grains, Inspirational, Ones, Order, Thinking

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Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

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Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.

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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

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