People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. - Richard Dawkins
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
- Richard Dawkins
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri… - Richard Dawkins
I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to cri…
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. - Richard Dawkins
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. - Richard Dawkins
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot. - Richard Dawkins
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument. - Richard Dawkins
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. - Richard Dawkins
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings. - Richard Dawkins
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. - Richard Dawkins
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
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