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.
Richard DawkinsSome people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.
Richard DawkinsThe universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.
Richard DawkinsReligions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
Richard Dawkins