The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
RICHARD DAWKINSWhen 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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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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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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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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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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