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 DAWKINSEven if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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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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