Clinton Richard Dawkins známy ako Richard Dawkins, je významný britský zoológ, etológ, evolučný biológ a propagátor ateizmu.
„Som proti náboženstvu, lebo nás učí uspokojiť sa s tým, že nerozumieme svetu.“
'en: I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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DVD: „From frog to a prince“ 4:28
'en: And, of course, the puzzling thing is where does all this complexity come from? Where does all this information come from? It cannot come about by chance. It’s absolutely inconceivable that you could get something as complicated as a bird, and as well designed as a bird, or a human, or a hedgehog, coming about by chance. That’s absolutely out. Because to get from nothing, from no complexity, no information, to the extreme complexity of a modern living thing in one step of chance couldn’t possibly happen. That would be like throwing a dice a thousand times and getting six every single time. It’s out of the question. But if you allow a little bit of luck in any one generation, and then a little bit of luck in the next generation, little bit of luck in the next generation, by cumulatively adding this luck step by step by step by step, you can work from any degree of simplicity to any degree of complexity. All you need is enough time. So where’s it come from? It’s come from gradual incremental process of evolution by natural selection.
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'en: Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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'en: Religions do make claims about the universe – the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.
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'en: (Edge Foundation): What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? (Dawkins): I believe that all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all “design” anywhere in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection. It follows that design comes late in the universe, after a period of Darwinian evolution. Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.
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'en: Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
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z River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, 1995
'en: The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
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The God Delusion, s. 59
'en: The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice - or not yet - a decided one.
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„Viera je presvedčenie napriek tomu, alebo práve preto, že chýbajú dôkazy.“
'en: Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Podobné: Viera znamená presvedčenie, že isté tvrdenia sú pravdivé - napriek tomu, že dôkazy ich pravdivosti sú nedostatočné alebo vyvracajúce jeho pravdivosť. (Dan Barker)
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Zdroj: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Zdroj: A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Duke University, 01/03/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcOoqxuroI&t=54m51s
The Magic Of Reality (2012)
Zdroj: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Kontext: Don’t ever be lazy enough, defeatist enough, cowardly enough to say “I don't understand it so it must be a miracle - it must be supernatural - God did it”. Say instead, that it’s a puzzle, it’s strange, it’s a challenge that we should rise to. Whether we rise to the challenge by questioning the truth of the observation, or by expanding our science in new and exciting directions - the proper and brave response to any such challenge is to tackle it head-on. And until we've found a proper answer to the mystery, it's perfectly ok simply to say “this is something we don't yet understand - but we're working on it”. It's the only honest thing to do. Miracles, magic and myths, they can be fun. Everybody likes a good story. Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. The real truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical, in the best and most exciting sense of the word, than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic - the magic of reality.
Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”
Zdroj: The Selfish Gene
“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
Zdroj: The Selfish Gene
Part 2, 00:13:55
Part 2: "The Virus of Faith", quoted at "The Proper Study of Mankind" blog http://psom.blogspot.com/2006/01/root-of-all-evil-part-2-virus-of-faith.html on January 25, 2006
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)
In an interview to The Times — Richard Dawkins: Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-atheist-academic-calls-for-religion-to-be-offended-at-every-opportunity-a7043226.html (23 May 2016)
“There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment.”
Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 186)
“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly ‘tracks’ the changing environment.”
Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 179)
“Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution.”
Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 178)
“What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?”
Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 79
