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That doesn’t mean that the religious completely abjure evidence. If it supports their preconceptions, they’ll accept it.

— Jerry Coyne Faith vs. Fact (2015)

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Everyone else besides the faithful already knows that religion has nothing useful to say to science.

It is curious that those who claim such firm knowledge about God’s nature and works become silent when asked about God’s methods.

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Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.

It is time to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term “person of faith” as a compliment.

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Any “knowledge” incapable of being revised with advances in data and human thinking does not deserve the name of knowledge.

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