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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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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 genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.
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Have they discovered evolution yet?
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
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There are very interesting controversies within evolution however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.
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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.
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If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.
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A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.
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There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or evolutionary psychology - relating to where we get our moral sense and why we value the idea of altruism, and locating both answers in behavioral adaptations for the preservation of our genes.
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Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution?
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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
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False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
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Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.
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If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.
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I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.
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There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.
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Human beings are just gene machines.
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