Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darw…

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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company
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