Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
RICHARD DAWKINSCreationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
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Our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.
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