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The Universe does not owe us meaning.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard Dawkins
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.
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The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
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[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law they've long ago lost in the halls of science and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.
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There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.
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The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.
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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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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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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
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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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I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.
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Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.
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Public sharing is an important part of science.
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Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.
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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
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