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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 Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.
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Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
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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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There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.
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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.
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[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life.
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If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.
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We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.
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There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
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Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.
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Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.
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St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.
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It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe
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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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