Creatures Quote by Richard Dawkins

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable.…

— Richard Dawkins

“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested.…

— Richard Dawkins

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of…

— Richard Dawkins

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by…

— Richard Dawkins

“Whenever we see design, we assume from experience that it came from a designer. We can tell the difference between sand dunes and sand…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

— Richard Dawkins

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

“A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance”

— Richard Dawkins

“The denier that ID [intelligent design] is science faces the following dilemma. Either he admits that the intervention of such a designer is possible,…

— Thomas Nagel

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that…

— James K. Galbraith

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dawkins asserts that final causes and design don't really exist. Unguided evolution explains it all. Francis Crick thought the same thing but was afraid…

— Frank Turek