Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.
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 us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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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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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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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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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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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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