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„Som proti náboženstvu, lebo nás učí uspokojiť sa s tým, že nerozumieme svetu.“

Richard Dawkins

'en: I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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„A, samozrejme, záhadnou vecou je: Odkiaľ táto všetka zložitosť pochádza? Odkiaľ pochádzajú všetky tieto informácie? K tomu nemožno prísť náhodou. Je to absolútne nepredstaviteľné, že by ste mohli dostať niečo tak zložitého ako vták, a rovnako konštruované ako vták, alebo človeka, alebo ježka, púhou náhodou. To je úplne vylúčené. To, aby sa z ničoho, zo žiadnej zložitosti, zo žiadnej informácie, dospelo k extrémnej zložitosti modernej živej bytosti, sa v jednom kroku náhody jednoducho nemohlo stať. To by bolo ako hádzanie kockou tisíckrát a stále získanie šestky zakaždým. To neprichádza do úvahy. Avšak ak dovolíte kúsok šťastia v niektorej generácii, a potom kúsok šťastia v budúcej generácii, a ešte raz kúsok šťastia v ďalšej generácii, potom sa kumulatívne pridaním tohto kúsku šťastia krok za krokom, a opäť krok za krokom, môžete prepracovať z ľubovoľného stupňa jednoduchosti do ľubovoľného stupňa zložitosti. Všetko, čo potrebujete, je len dosť času. Takže odkiaľ sa [táto zložitosť] zobrala? Pochádza z postupného prírastkového procesu evolúcie prirodzeným výberom.“

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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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„Náboženstvo učí nebezpečný nezmysel, že smrť nepredstavuje koniec. (v "Religion's Misguided Missiles", 15. September, 2001))“

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'en: Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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„Náboženstvá vyhlasujú tvrdenia o vesmíre - podobné typy tvrdení, aké vyhlasujú vedci s tým rozdielom, že sa väčšinou mýlia.“

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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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„Svet je plný ochotných ľudí - jedni sú ochotní pracovať, druhí sú ochotní nechať ich pracovať.“

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„Edge Foundation): Čomu veríte napriek tomu že to neviete dokázať? (Dawkins): Verím že všetok život, všetka inteligencia, tvorivosť a "dizajn" v celom vesmíre, je priamym alebo nepriamym produktom prírodného výberu. Z toho vyplýva že dizajn vo vesmíre sa objavil neskôr, po období darvinistickej evolúcie. Dizajn nemôže predchádzať evolúcii a preto nemôže byť základom vesmíru. (What we believe but cannot prove, s.9“

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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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„Myslím si, že mnohí ľudia považujú Boha za potrebného na vysvetlenie existencie sveta, a najmä existencie života. Mýlia sa, ale náš vzdelávací systém je taký, že mnohí ľudia o tom nevedia.“

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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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O svete , O bohu , O ľuďoch , O živote

„Vesmír, ktorý vidíme, má presne tie vlastnosti, aké by sme očakávali, keby nemal v podstate žiaden dizajn, zmysel, žiadne dobro a žiadne zlo; nič len slepú neľútostnú ľahostajnosť.“

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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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O ľahostajnosti , O zlu , O vesmíre , ľahostajnosť

„Prítomnosť či neprítomnosť kreatívnej super-inteligencie je neodškriepiteľne vedecká otázka, aj keď v skutočnosti alebo aspoň zatiaľ, nie zodpovedaná.“

Richard Dawkins kniha The God Delusion

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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O inteligencii , otázka

„Viera je presvedčenie napriek tomu, alebo práve preto, že chýbajú dôkazy.“

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'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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O viere

„Z týchto bonmotov vyplýva, že každý, kto verí v evolúciu, je veriaci. Pretože veriť v nič, ktoré všetko stvorilo a determinovalo život, na to treba veľmi silnú vieru.“

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O živote , O viere

Richard Dawkins: Citáty v angličtine

“How do we account for the current paranormal vogue in the popular media? Perhaps it has something to do with the millennium – in which case it's depressing to realise that the millennium is still three years away.”

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“evidence is the only good reason to believe anything”

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interview shown in AlJazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h26m04s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0jA6VsivBE&t=0h28m37s

“There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.”

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Darwin's Dangerous Disciple: An Interview by Frank Miele (1995)

“Dear Muslima

Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with.

Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so . . .

And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

Richard”

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Blog comment, , to PZ Myers, " Always Name Names https://web.archive.org/web/20110706204901/http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/07/always_name_names.php" (), Pharyngula, quoted in Rebecca Watson, " The Privilege Delusion http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/", Skepchick.
Regarding the Rebecca Watson elevator incident.

“Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/480273220659339264 (21 June 2014)
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“But there are many unsophisticated Christians out there … who take the Bible very seriously indeed as a literal and accurate record of history and hence as evidence supporting the religious beliefs. Do these people never open the book that they believe is the literal truth? Why don't they notice the glaring contradictions?”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The God Delusion

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 120

“Mitochondrial DNA is blessedly celibate. (p.53)”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Even sticking to the higher plane of love, is it so very obvious that you can't love more than one person? We seem to manage it with parental love (parents are reproached if they don't at least pretend to love all their children equally), love of books, of food, of wine (love of Chateau Margaux does not preclude love of a fine Hock, and we don't feel unfaithful to the red when we dally with the white), love of composers, poets, holiday beaches, friends... why is erotic love the one exception that everybody instantly acknowledges without even thinking about it?”

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Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/richard_dawkins/2007/11/banishing_the_greeneyed_monste.html, November 2007.

“The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 8 “Explosions and Spirals” (pp. 195–196)

“We should be offended when children are denied a proper education. We should be offended when children are told they will spend eternity in hell. We should be offended when medical science, for example stem-cell research, is compromised by the bigoted opinions of powerful and above all well-financed ignoramuses. We should be offended when voodoo, of all kinds, is given equal weight to science. We should be offended by hymen reconstruction surgery. We should be offended by 'female circumcision', euphemism for genital mutilation. We should be offended by stoning.”

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Lecture at UC Berkeley about The God Delusion, 08/03/2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJelU29jeI&t=49s
Lecture at UC Berkeley (2008)

“I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder — it is also utterly ridiculous. (Part 1, 00:44:39)”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“It's tempting to say all religions are bad, and I do say all religions are bad, but it's a worse temptation to say all religions are equally bad because they're not. If you look at the actual impact that different religions have on the world it's quite apparent that at present the most evil religion in the world has to be Islam. It's terribly important to modify that because of course that doesn't mean all Muslims are evil, very far from it. Individual Muslims suffer more from Islam than anyone else. They suffer from the homophobia, the misogyny, the joylessness which is preached by extreme Islam, Isis and the Iranian regime. So it is a major evil in the world, we do have to combat it, but we don't do what Trump did and say all Muslims should be shut out of the country. That's draconian, that's illiberal, inhumane and wicked. I am against Islam not least because of the unpleasant effects it has on the lives of Muslims.”

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As quoted in "Richard Dawkins: religious education is crucial for British schoolchildren" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/11/richard-dawkins-religious-education-crucial-british-schoolchildren/ by Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph (11 June 2017)

“I can think of no moral objection to eating human road kills except for the ones that you mentioned like 'what would the relatives think about it?' and 'would the person themselves have wanted it to happen?', but I do worry a bit about slippery slopes; possibly a little bit more than you do.There are barriers that we have set up in our minds and certainly the barrier between Homo sapiens and any other species is an artificial barrier in the sense that its a kind of 'accident' that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. Never the less it exists and natural barriers that are there can be useful for preventing slippery slopes and therefore I think I can see an objection to breaching such a barrier because you are then in a weaker position to stop people going further.Another example might be suppose you take the argument in favour of abortion up until the baby was one year old, if a baby was one year old and turned out to have some horrible incurable disease that meant it was going to die in agony in later life, what about infanticide? Strictly morally I can see no objection to that at all, I would be in favour of infanticide but I think i would worry about/I think I would wish at least to give consideration to the person who says 'where does it end?'”

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Peter Singer - The Genius of Darwin: The Uncut Interviews (2009)

“The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?

“What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

“McDonald: Now a lot of people find great comfort from religion. Not everybody is as you are – well-favored, handsome, wealthy, with a good job, happy family life. I mean, your life is good – not everybody's life is good, and religion brings them comfort.Dawkins: There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting – it might be more comforting, for all I know. But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.”

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An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

“Yet scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects. And statistical analysis eliminates the suspicion (or at least measures the likelihood) that the apparent effect might have happened by chance alone.Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the £740,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe. Why don't the television editors insist on some equivalently rigorous test? Could it be that they believe the alleged paranormal powers would evaporate and bang go the ratings?Consider this. If a paranormalist could really give an unequivocal demonstration of telepathy (precognition, psychokinesis, reincarnation, whatever it is), he would be the discoverer of a totally new principle unknown to physical science. The discoverer of the new energy field that links mind to mind in telepathy, or of the new fundamental force that moves objects around a table top, deserves a Nobel prize and would probably get one. If you are in possession of this revolutionary secret of science, why not prove it and be hailed as the new Newton? Of course, we know the answer. You can't do it. You are a fake.Yet the final indictment against the television decision-makers is more profound and more serious. Their recent splurge of paranormalism debauches true science and undermines the efforts of their own excellent science departments. The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudo-scientific charlatans. The public appetite for wonder can be fed, through the powerful medium of television, without compromising the principles of honesty and reason.”

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[Human gullibility beyond belief,— the “paranormal” in the media, The Sunday Times, 1996-08-25]

“I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can't find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today.”

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Giles Whittell, " The world according to Richard Dawkins http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article4191347.ece" (), The Times, quoted in Trevor Grundy, " Richard Dawkins Pedophilia Remarks Provoke Outrage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/09/richard-dawkins-pedophilia_n_3895514.html" (), The Huffington Post.