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I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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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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The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.
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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.
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No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
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... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
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The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
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Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.
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People who believe in something for which there is not a shred of evidence act on that belief and, above all, impose their beliefs on others, they make me cross, and they make me especially cross when they impose their beliefs on defenceless children.
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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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You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.
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I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.
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It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as do as you would be done by.
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[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.
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Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.
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We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
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I think the world's always a better place if people are filled with understanding.
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Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
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You don't believe that the Earth is round only if you're an astronaut. You don't believe Napoleon existed only if you're a historian. You believe these things because they're facts, proved by evidence.
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I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.
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