I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That… — 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
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least… — 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
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… — 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
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