Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you listen to two people who are arguing about something, and they each of them have passionate faith that they're right,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
One of the possible reasons why we might be good is that we're frightened, frightened of God. We want the reward in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless… — 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
Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image