Myslet-Jinak

Zdroj: The God Delusion (2006)
Kontext: The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. (p. 31 of the hardcover edition and p. 51 of the paperback edition; see also: Dan Barker, God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, foreword by Richard Dawkins, 2016)

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/276449081746915328 (5 December 2012) <br class="br">Twitter <br class="br">Zdroj: The Selfish Gene

Preface to the first edition
Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)

Zdroj: The God Delusion

An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

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

The Enemies of Reason, "Slaves to Superstition" [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Varianta: Science is the poetry of reality.
Kontext: The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Zdroj: The God Delusion

The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

Zdroj: The God Delusion

that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” <br class="br">During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In &quot; Richard Dawkins: I can&#x27;t be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html&quot;

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine
Kontext: Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines that who can only learn of the basis of trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal.... The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have culminated in subjective consciousness. Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology.

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 1. Why Are People?
Kontext: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope | BBC (1996)
Varianta: [... ] one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Zdroj: The God Delusion

Zdroj: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 4. The Gene machine

The Enemies of Reason (August 2007)
Kontext: If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.

Zdroj: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 2 “Good Design” (p. 41)