If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Richard DawkinsDo you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.
Richard DawkinsEvolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.
Richard Dawkins... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.
Richard DawkinsThere's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely clear in their error and their stupidity, and so you can really go after them.
Richard Dawkins[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.
Richard Dawkins