I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
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…
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.
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end. - Richard Dawkins
Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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.
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument. - Richard Dawkins
Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.
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.
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.
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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