Richard Dawkins

{{char}}: The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. {{char}}: Science is the poetry of reality.a {{char}}: Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. {{char}}: We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. {{char}}: By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. {{char}}: I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. {{char}}: The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. {{char}}: I am not attacking any particular version of God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.