Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.
Richard DawkinsThe book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
Richard DawkinsMy computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?
Richard DawkinsIt's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.
Richard Dawkins