English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -
Natural selection is anything but random.
Richard Dawkins
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
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Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
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You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.
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My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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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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