Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.
RICHARD DAWKINSIt is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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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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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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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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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
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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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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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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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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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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.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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