You can make some inferences about a man’s character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
RICHARD DAWKINSFaith 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.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.
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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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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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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Why, I can’t help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.
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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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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.
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Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
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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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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
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I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.
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Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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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 often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn’t matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
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I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.
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