Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution sceptic: Professor Haldane, even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply cannot believe it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
DNA is ROM. It can be read millions of times over, but only written to once - when it is first assembled… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“That scientifically savvy philosopher Daniel Dennett pointed out that evolution counters one of the oldest ideas we have: 'the idea that it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a trajectory through multidimensional space, in which every step of the way has to represent a body capable of surviving… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share
![“[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f50/richard-dawkins-115_atheism_creationists-have-lost-in-the-courts-of_833543.jpg)
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