We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you… — 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
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. — 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
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants… — 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