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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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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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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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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
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If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.
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When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.
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Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
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The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.
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I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.
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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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If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
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However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?
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Mutation is random natural selection is the very opposite of random.
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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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We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.
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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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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.
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DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
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They are in you and me they created us, body and mind and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
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I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.
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I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
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