Myths are fun, as long as you don’t confuse them with the truth.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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.
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I don’t give a damn for anybody’s opinion, I only care about the facts. So I’m not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.
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The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.
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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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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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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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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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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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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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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.
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