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history Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | history

I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

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history Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | history

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

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Richard Dawkins | great

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

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Richard Dawkins | great

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

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Richard Dawkins | good

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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God Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | god

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

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God Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | god

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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God Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | god

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

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God Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | god

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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Richard Dawkins | future

Evolution never looks to the future.

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