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An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
River out of Eden (1995)
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
Interview with Bill Maher (2013)
Suggest always put Islamic "scholar" in quotes, to avoid insulting true scholars. True scholars have read more than one book.
It's obvious that in an intelligent educated audience such as this university, I stress this university. Who saw fit to give them accreditation?
You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God? (Part 2, 00:13:55)
The Root of All Evil? (2006)
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital.
River out of Eden (1995)
I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
It is easy to think of DNA as the information by which a body makes another body like itself. It would be more correct to see a body as the vehicle used by DNA to make more DNA like itself.
Climbing Mount Improbable (1996)
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
I've seen a dog & bitch indulging in full 69. Males of many species including Drosophila lick female genitals before copulation.
University is about confronting new ideas, unfamiliar, un-"safe". If you want to be "safe" you are not worthy of a university education.
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
The Selfish Gene (1976)
If you're seen to criticise Islam you are often accused of racism, which is absurd.
Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity (2016)
In the case of immigrants from Syria and Iraq I would like to see special preference given to apostates, people who have given up Islam, they are in particular danger.
Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity (2016)
I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me.
Don't call him "clock boy" since he never made a clock. Hoax Boy, having hoaxed his way into the White House, now wants $15M in addition!
The river of my title is a river of DNA, and it flows through time, not space. It is a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.
River out of Eden (1995)