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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.
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I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.
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If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?
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I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
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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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Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.
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How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
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The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
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I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.
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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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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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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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