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.
RICHARD DAWKINSIf 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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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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Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
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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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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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