Richard Dawkins
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 08:15
Quotes by Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. He is probably most famous for his book The God Delusion and the mainstream media has widely referred to him as "Darwin's Rottweiler".
- "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic-cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." - The God Delusion
- "The battle over evolution is only one minor skirmish in a much larger war". - EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed
Ben Stein asked Dawkins, "What do you think is the possibility that Intelligent Design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics or in evolution?" He replied:
- "Well, it could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, probably by some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Now, um, now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer." - EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed
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