If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them? Who's God trying to impress? Presumably himself, since he is judge and jury, as well as… - Richard Dawkins

یک نمونه آن پرسش فلسفی قدیمی است که می‌گوید: آیا تو هم مثل من قرمز می‌بینی؟ شاید آنچه برای تو قرمز می‌نماید برای من سبز باشید یا اصلاً رنگی باشد که در خیال من هم نمی‌گنجد! فیلسوفان این پرسش را در زمره پرسش‌هایی می‌دانند که هرگز پاسخی ندارد.

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

Genes do indirectly control the manufacture of bodies, and the influence is strictly one way: acquired characteristics are not inherited. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.