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I guess there are some rights of parents with what they choose their children to learn, but I'm biased in favor of freeing children to learn and not letting parents be too doctrinaire in indoctrinating their children.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
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I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.
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My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.
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Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to being herded.
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If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?
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Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
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You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.
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The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues
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Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.
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Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
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An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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