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Darwin, however, saw his doubts as a challenge to go on thinking, not a welcome excuse to give up.

— Richard Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable (1996)

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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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