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Quotes from The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins

born 1941 England

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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. (p. 40)

The God Delusion (2006)

"However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747" (p. 138)

The God Delusion (2006)

Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true. (p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007)

The God Delusion (2006)

"A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right." (p. 178)

The God Delusion (2006)

What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot? (p. 79)

The God Delusion (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Dawkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.