There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that true faith exists independently of evidence or proof.
Richard Dawkins' quote highlights the relationship between faith and evidence, arguing that faith is a belief that does not rely on empirical evidence. If one has clear evidence for a belief, then the concept of faith becomes redundant, as faith is traditionally viewed as believing in something despite a lack of evidence. This challenges the nature of belief and emphasizes the distinction between faith-based and evidence-based thinking.
In practice
In a debate about the existence of God, one might use this quote to emphasize that faith transcends empirical proof.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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