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Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
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If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
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I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
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Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
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I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
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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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The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.
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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
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All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
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The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being.
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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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I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.
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There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
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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.
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I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.
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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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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 truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.
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Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.
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