3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
