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Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
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My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.
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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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Evolution never looks to the future.
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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.
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My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.
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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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Human beings are just gene machines.
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I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
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I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
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