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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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I'd like everybody to be secular. I suppose I have to say politically I would like religion to become gentler and nicer and to stop interfering with other people's lives, stop repressing women, stop indoctrinating children, all that sort of thing. But I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.
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Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
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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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St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.
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The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase ill-gotten might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.
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The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.
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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
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Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the know-nothings, the know-alls, and the no-contests.
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Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
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The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.
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Human beings are just gene machines.
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Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.
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The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
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I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
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