English - Scientist | March 26, 1941 -
We have the power to turn against our creators.
Richard Dawkins
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You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
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A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.
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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 think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
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If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.
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The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
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A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
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You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
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A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
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There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.
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I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.
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