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.
RICHARD DAWKINSReligious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private revelation.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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In the beginning was simplicity.
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The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
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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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Science is the poetry of reality.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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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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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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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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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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Science is interesting, and if you don’t agree you can fuck off.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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