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 DAWKINSThe essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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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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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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Chance is just a word expressing ignorance.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Creationists 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.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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