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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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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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'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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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/282854320133775360 <br class="br">Twitter

River out of Eden (1995)

[Dawkins, Richard, Richard Dawkins, Why don't animals have wheels?, Sunday Times, November 24, 1996, http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, October 29, 2008, http://web.archive.org/web/20070221073440/http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/1996-11-24wheels.shtml, February 21, 2007]

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

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

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

Dawkins on Q&amp;A (), replying to a Muslim man who asked about &#x27;absolute morality&#x27;. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7AQTs_y5A

River out of Eden (1995)

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

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

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 7 “Constructive Evolution” (p. 184)

arbitrarily assumed to be male
Viruses of the Mind (1993)

[1998, Unweaving the Rainbow, London, Allen Lane, 9780713992144, 18827466M, Preface]
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)

"Good and Bad Reasons for Believing" [open letter to his daughter]
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

Answering audience questions after a reading of The God Delusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg,Randolph-Macon Woman&#x27;s College,<br>Posed question: &quot;This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but: What if you&#x27;re wrong?&quot;

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

BBC's Have Your Say (December 2007)

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/307369895031603200 (28 February 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

Part 1, 00:00:55
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

Zdroj: River out of Eden (1995), Ch. 5: The Replication Bomb

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 3 “Accumulating Small Change” (p. 50)

there are always sufficiently gullible patients
Foreword to Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ()

The Enemies of Reason, "The Irrational Health Service"
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/336048706853937152 (19 May 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

At Randolph-Macon Woman&#x27;s College, Broadcasted by C-SPAN2 http://richarddawkins.net/home

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/358514912789676033 (20 July 2013) <br class="br">Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFdPHdhgKQ&amp;t=59m29s <br class="br">Richard Dawkins vs. Jonathan Sacks - BBC&#x27;s RE:Think Festival (2012)