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You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Richard Dawkins
Strong, Believe, Religion

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Richard Dawkins
Thinking, Make You Think, Religion

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

Richard Dawkins
Children, Parent, Religion

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Survival, Culture
Richard Dawkins (1989). “The Selfish Gene”, p.193, Oxford University Press, USA

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.

Richard Dawkins
Religious, Religion, Useless

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Richard Dawkins
Atheist, Parent, Religion

Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

Richard Dawkins
Atheist, Believe, Religion

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Richard Dawkins
Science, People, Religion
"Has the world changed?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2001.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Libertarian, Kind

To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.

Richard Dawkins
Water, Religion, Puddles

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Atheism, Natural

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Richard Dawkins
People, Religion, Atheism
Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Atheism, Cosmos
Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Richard Dawkins
Order, Religion, Littles

The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.

Richard Dawkins
Space, Islands, Religion

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Richard Dawkins
Imagination, Religion, Poetic

Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Richard Dawkins
Jesus, Religion, Different
Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Richard Dawkins
Religion, Atheism, Morality
Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene”, p.3, Oxford University Press

Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

Richard Dawkins
Dating, Long, Religion