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.
RICHARD DAWKINSLet children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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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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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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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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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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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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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened.
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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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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
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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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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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