Michael Ruse Quotes

#1. The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.

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#2. In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

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#3. I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

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#4. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.

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#5. I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a mess of religious pottage.

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#6. We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

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#7. Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.

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#8. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.

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#9. Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

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