The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
RICHARD DAWKINSThere’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
More Richard Dawkins Quotes
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I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.
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Science is the poetry of reality.
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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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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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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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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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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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Religion: Together we can find the cure.
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Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
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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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Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
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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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We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
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