Advocating Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advocating Atheism Character Evolution Morality Religion Selfish gene
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Evolution is dismissive of the eternity of moral duty and moral laws.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral code to… — Jasper T. Scott Copy Share Image
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are external moral… — Timothy J. Keller 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
As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING. — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I think Hamas should be challenged to consider really embracing Gandhi and Dr. Kings philosophy of advocating nonviolence as a way to achieve self… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care what happens to the Republican Party. I care about… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The press has bravely and nobly eroded the public trust... What I'm advocating is the media come work for us again. Remove themselves from… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do with torture.… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
