I love how he says that the request by religious people of a fossile in every state of development (in order to prove evolution) is equivelant to asking a creationist for a cinematic movie(recording) of god's every stage of creation.
"...the stereo- type of scientists being scruffy nerds with rows of pens in their top pocket is just about as wicked as racist stereotypes."
Richard Dawkins
"The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought."
Peter Ustinov
"Flowers and elephants are 'for' the same thing as everything else in the living kingdoms, for spreading Duplicate Me programs written in DNA language. Flowers are for spreading copies of instructions for making more flowers. Elephants are for spreading copies of instructions for making more elephants."
Richard Dawkins
"Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain."
Richard Dawkins
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also"
1. Comment #80336 by robotaholic on October 21, 2007 at 11:17 am
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