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Richard Dawkins
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Dawkins
September 23, 2008 at 12:30 am
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." -- Richard Dawkins
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RE: Dawkins
October 9, 2008 at 5:08 am
I have hundreds of quotes by Dawkins, perhaps thousands by others ... I like this forum Smile

"We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun. There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out." Richard Dawkins

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RE: Dawkins
October 9, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Great quote!
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RE: Dawkins
January 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm
astrology= a random set of general things that could apply to anyone.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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RE: Dawkins
January 14, 2009 at 6:12 pm (This post was last modified: January 14, 2009 at 6:14 pm by leo-rcc.)
"What is it with cheese? American friends have suggested to me a connection with the notoriously liberal state of Wisconsin -- home of the FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation) and centre of the dairy industry -- but surely there must be more to it than that? And how about those French 'cheese-eating surrender-monkeys'? What is the semiotic iconography of cheese?" -- Richard Dawkins on hate mail
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RE: Dawkins
January 14, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Lol Tongue that's from TGD isn't it? Big Grin
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RE: Dawkins
April 5, 2009 at 9:58 am
My favorite Dawkins quote is in my signature.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. -Richard Dawkins Thinking
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RE: Dawkins
April 5, 2009 at 11:52 am
I do like that quote, and it's true as well.
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RE: Dawkins
April 12, 2009 at 4:42 am (This post was last modified: April 12, 2009 at 4:50 am by Giff.)
"Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests"

"There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"

These are quite good quotes I think.
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RE: Dawkins
April 12, 2009 at 5:13 am
I always wonder what Dawkins means by no-contests? What is it believers who don't want a contest? Or believers who think there is no-contest and they are obviously right, but in that case how are they different to the know-alls? Could someone clear that up for me - what does the "no-contests" part mean?

Is it like "There's No-Contest....we're obviously right!"

Or is it like they don't want a contest - they don't wanna argue about it...or.....

..other?
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