Used Quotes by Richard Dawkins

14 Used quotes by Richard Dawkins

Dawkins applies his scientific clarity to 14 remarks that dissect how evolutionary and cultural forces can reduce beings to mere tools.

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

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Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used…

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The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and…

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Either Jesus had a father, or he didn't. The question is a scientific one, and scientific evidence, if any were available, would…

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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses…

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Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the…

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To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be…

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I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom…

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Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who…

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In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from…

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You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'…

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In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies…

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The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame…

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To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not…

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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

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The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from…

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We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

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“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…

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“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist…

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Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

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“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,…

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The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…

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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,…

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