If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Our consciousness is also raised by the cruelty and wastefulness of natural selection. Predators seem beautifully ‘designed’ to catch prey animals, while… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and… — 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
Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a… — 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
“Religion, is a mistake of geography. If you where born in America you are Christan, if you where born in the middle… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than… — 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 cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually… — 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
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