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 DAWKINSI shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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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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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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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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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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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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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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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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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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The less you think, the more you believe.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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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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