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 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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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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Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.
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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.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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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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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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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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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
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