Richard Dawkins: River Out of Eden

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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

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