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" I think religion is here to stay because it does satisfy [our] needs, but intellectually I don't think you can justify it. The arguments for god's existence are uniformly bad. "

          - John Searle

" If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them. "

          - Paul-Henri Thiry

" Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy. "

          - Carl Sagan

" To have conviction is very different from having faith. Conviction is a kind of believe that can be sensitive to evidence and argument ...the virtue of faith is the strength to continue to believe something in the face of reason and evidence. "

          - Ronald De Souza

" Religion is filled with mysteries of its own making ...design to be insolvable "

          - Steve Jones

" In the world of religious beliefs, where you are soaked in repetiton of those beliefs, ...people all around you believe them. It's no wonder that you can indoctrinate people with these beliefs even if they don't make very much sense. "

          - Elizabeth Loftus

                  








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