The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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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, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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