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Richard Dawkins Quotes

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God’s existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference) Picture Quote #1

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn’t vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction) Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life Picture Quote #1

My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again Picture Quote #1

If it’s really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university Picture Quote #1

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[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent Picture Quote #1

Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue Picture Quote #1

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It’s like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There’s a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn’t really matter Picture Quote #1

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up Picture Quote #1

It is interesting to ask whether there’s any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It’s possible that people do nice things because they’re religious. One reason might be they’re hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason Picture Quote #1

One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we’re frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don’t want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn’t respect them, you’d probably give them a wide berth Picture Quote #1

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Just because science can’t in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn’t mean that religion can. It’s a simple and logical fallacy to say, ‘If science can’t do something therefore religion can.’ Picture Quote #1

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it Picture Quote #1

I don’t understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did Picture Quote #1

It’s known that stress gives rise to disease. It’s also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do Picture Quote #1

I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that Picture Quote #1

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version Picture Quote #1

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As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers Picture Quote #1

Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus’s resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk Picture Quote #1

Saddam Hussein’s mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data Picture Quote #1

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don’t have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present Picture Quote #1

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used Picture Quote #1

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things Picture Quote #1

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I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it Picture Quote #1

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth’s age is at least four billion years Picture Quote #1

The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam’s sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn’t exist Picture Quote #1

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it’s pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature Picture Quote #1

I suppose I’m a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it Picture Quote #1

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented Picture Quote #1

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Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God’s existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference) (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn’t vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction) (Richard Dawkins Quotes) 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 (Richard Dawkins Quotes) The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life (Richard Dawkins Quotes) My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again (Richard Dawkins Quotes) If it’s really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university (Richard Dawkins Quotes) [If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue (Richard Dawkins Quotes) [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It’s like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There’s a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn’t really matter (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God’s approval and reward? That’s not morality, that’s just sucking up (Richard Dawkins Quotes) It is interesting to ask whether there’s any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It’s possible that people do nice things because they’re religious. One reason might be they’re hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason (Richard Dawkins Quotes) One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we’re frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in Heaven, we don’t want to go to Hell. That would be an ignoble, ignominious reason for being good, and I think that if anybody was good to you just because they hoped for a heavenly reward, you wouldn’t respect them, you’d probably give them a wide berth (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Just because science can’t in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn’t mean that religion can. It’s a simple and logical fallacy to say, ‘If science can’t do something therefore religion can.’ (Richard Dawkins Quotes) If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it (Richard Dawkins Quotes) I don’t understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did (Richard Dawkins Quotes) It’s known that stress gives rise to disease. It’s also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do (Richard Dawkins Quotes) I think by the age of about nine I recognized that there were a lot of different religions, and it was an accident I happened to be born into one of them. If I had been born somewhere else, I would have had a different one. Which is a pretty good lesson, actually. Everyone should learn that (Richard Dawkins Quotes) An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version (Richard Dawkins Quotes) As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus’s resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk (Richard Dawkins Quotes) Saddam Hussein’s mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data (Richard Dawkins Quotes) We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don’t have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present (Richard Dawkins Quotes) To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used (Richard Dawkins Quotes) I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things (Richard Dawkins Quotes) I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it. (Richard Dawkins Quotes) All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth’s age is at least four billion years. (Richard Dawkins Quotes) The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam’s sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn’t exist. (Richard Dawkins Quotes) If you read Islamic creationist literature, it’s pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. (Richard Dawkins Quotes) I suppose I’m a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it. (Richard Dawkins Quotes) ...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented. (Richard Dawkins Quotes)

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