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Faith is not the opposite of reason.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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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.
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I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.
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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 great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.
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Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.
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Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.
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If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.
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The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
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Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.
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Suppose that there's a gene that makes you gay if you were bottle-fed but that has some completely different effect if you were breast-fed. So in the days before bottles were invented that gene would not have manifested itself as gay behavior, but now that bottles are common it can do so.
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There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life, for example, there was never sufficient natural selection pressure to develop better eyes, individuals could earn other things like smiley smiles rather than waste energy & time on better eyes.
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Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?
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Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.
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Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.
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The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.
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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.
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Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
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In Britain you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.
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