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.
RICHARD DAWKINSIn the beginning was simplicity.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
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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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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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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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When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.
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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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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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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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Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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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