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.
RICHARD DAWKINSEvolution 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
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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.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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