Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.
Richard DawkinsThe universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
Richard DawkinsAlong with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
Richard DawkinsExplaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.
Richard DawkinsIt is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.
Richard Dawkins