Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
RICHARD DAWKINSThings exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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