Design Quotes by Richard Dawkins

Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.

— Richard Dawkins

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

— Richard Dawkins

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful…

— Richard Dawkins

The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse…

— Richard Dawkins

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,…

— Richard Dawkins

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the…

— Richard Dawkins

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is…

— Richard Dawkins

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are…

— Richard Dawkins

Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable…

— Richard Dawkins

A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex…

— Richard Dawkins

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…

— Richard Dawkins

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.…

— Richard Dawkins

For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are…

— Richard Dawkins

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view.…

— Richard Dawkins

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes…

— Richard Dawkins

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