Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to thin…

Richard Dawkins
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ✨ Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God, The Independent(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.
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