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.
RICHARD DAWKINSThe meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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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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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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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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If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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