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Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further.
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Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.
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What is the purpose of the universe? is a silly question.
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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 am not advocating a morality based on evolution.
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The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.
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Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.
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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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[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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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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There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, mad cow disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep down the populace. It is a wonderful way of disciplining people and making them do what you want, to tell them that if they don't do what you want they will, for example, go to Hell.
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In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.
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