Richard Dawkins - Conversation with Julia Sweeney
Channel: Memoirs of Professor Richard Dawkins
Date: 2017-08-25

Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

Born: March 26, 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya

Influenced by: Charles Darwin

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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

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.

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