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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

“Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/494012589828218881 (), quoted in Lizzie Dearden, " Richard Dawkins tweets: 'Date rape is bad, stranger rape is worse' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-says-date-rape-is-bad-stranger-rape-is-worse-on-twitter-9634572.html", The Independent ()
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“Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.”

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As quoted in Richard Dawkins causes outcry after likening the burka to a bin liner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7936221/Richard-Dawkins-causes-outcry-after-likening-the-burka-to-a-bin-liner.html (10 August 2010), The Telegraph.

“(Spectrum level 6) I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The God Delusion

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 73

“Think about the two qualities that a virus, or any sort of parasitic replicator, demands of a friendly medium, the two qualities that make cellular machinery so friendly towards parasitic DNA, and that make computers so friendly towards computer viruses. These qualities are, firstly, a readiness to replicate information accurately, perhaps with some mistakes that are subsequently reproduced accurately; and, secondly, a readiness to obey instructions encoded in the information so replicated.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“Amusingly, it [astrology] falls foul of our modern taboo against lazy stereotyping. How would we react if a newspaper published a daily column that read something like this: "Germans: It is in your nature to be hard-working and methodical, which should serve you well at work today. In your personal relationships, especially this evening, you will need to curb your natural tendency to obey orders. Chinese: Inscrutability has many advantages, but it may be your undoing today. British: Your stiff upper lip may serve you well in business dealings, but try to relax and let yourself go in your social life.”

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The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 0:05:54ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)

“The absolute morality that a religious person might profess would include what, stoning people for adultery, death for apostasy, punishment for breaking the Sabbath. These are all things which are religiously based absolute moralities. I don’t think I want an absolute morality. I think I want a morality that is thought out, reasoned, argued, discussed and based upon, I’d almost say, intelligent design [pun intended]. Can we not design our society, which has the sort of morality, the sort of society that we want to live in – if you actually look at the moralities that are accepted among modern people, among 21st century people, we don’t believe in slavery anymore. We believe in equality of women. We believe in being gentle. We believe in being kind to animals. These are all things which are entirely recent. They have very little basis in Biblical or Quranic scripture. They are things that have developed over historical time through a consensus of reasoning, of sober discussion, argument, legal theory, political and moral philosophy. These do not come from religion. To the extent that you can find the good bits in religious scriptures, you have to cherry pick. You search your way through the Bible or the Quran and you find the occasional verse that is an acceptable profession of morality and you say, ‘Look at that. That’s religion,’ and you leave out all the horrible bits and you say, ‘Oh, we don’t believe that anymore. We’ve grown out of that.’ Well, of course we’ve grown out it. We’ve grown out of it because of secular moral philosophy and rational discussion.”

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Richard Dawkins-George Pell Q&A (2012)

“… the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria … All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“But if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as "these are not one-dimensional abilities" apply equally to cows, horses and dogs and never stopped anybody in practice. I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler's death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and they are good ones, which would probably end up persuading me. But hasn't the time come when we should stop being frightened even to put the question?”

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Richard Dawkins, From the Afterword, The Herald Scotland, (November 20, 2006) http://www.heraldscotland.com/from-the-afterword-1.836155

“But it is we that choose to divide animals up into discontinuous species. On the evolutionary view of life there must have been intermediates, even though, conveniently for our naming rituals, they are usually extinct.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

"Gaps in the Mind"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously. A joyful life is an active life - it is not a dull static state of so-called happiness. Full of the burning fire of enthusiasm, anarchic, revolutionary, energetic, daemonic, Dionysian, filled to overflowing with the terrific urge to create - such is the life of the man who risks safety and happiness for the sake of growth and happiness.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha A Devil's Chaplain

quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“On natural selection: "Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance."”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The God Delusion

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 146

“I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful. Darwinism is the differential survival of self-replicating genes in a gene pool, usually as manifested by individual behaviour, morphology, and phenotypes. Group selection of any kind is not Darwinism as Darwin understood it nor as I understand it. There is a very vague analogy between group selection and conquest of a nation by another nation, but I don't think it's a very helpful analogy. So I would prefer not to invoke Darwinian language for that kind of historical interpretation.”

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

“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Blind Watchmaker

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 5)

“SJWs can't forgive Shakespeare for having the temerity to be white and male.”

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In 2014, as quoted in The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement (2015), Stephen LeDrew

“Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil. Each believes that when he dies he is going to heaven. Each believes that if he could kill the other, his path to paradise in the next world would be even swifter. The delusional "next world" is welcome to both of them. This world would be a much better place without either of them.”

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Gordy Slack, "The Atheist" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index_np.html (), Salon.com

“As a liberal I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice.”

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“No doubt some of your cousins and great-uncles died in childhood, but not a single one of your ancestors did. Ancestors just don't die young!”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The Selfish Gene

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 3. Immortal Coils

“Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, ' If science can't do something, therefore religion can.”

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“And when we look closely, we find a system of morals which any civilised person today should surely find poisonous.”

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The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The four Gospels that made it into the official canon were chosen, more or less arbitrarily, out of a larger sample of at least a dozen … The gospels that didn't make it were omitted by those ecclesiastics perhaps because they included stories that were even more embarrassingly implausible than those in the four canonical ones.”

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Richard Dawkins kniha The God Delusion

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006), p. 121

“I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself. ”

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Regarding his 1989 statement "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)." (see above)