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Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?
название статьи 2007 года
Аргумент против обвинений в свой адрес (и критиков религии вообще) в теологической без- или малограмотности. Подобная фраза «<такой критик атеизма> вряд ли стал бы считаться с мнением учёного-„фейолога“ — специалиста по точной форме и цвету крылышек фей.» есть в его книге «Бог как иллюзия» (гл. 1, подгл. «Незаслуженное уважение»)
Источник: Richard Dawkins, Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them? https://web.archive.org/web/20120722034459/http://richarddawkins.net/articles/1647?page=27 // The Independent, 17 September 2007.

„Между прочим, религиозный студент может придти в замешательство, недоумевая зачем Бог создаёт проблемы, снабжая хищников красивой адаптацией для ловли добычи, при этом другой рукой снабжая добычу красивой адаптацией, препятствующей этому. Видимо Он наслаждается этим спортом как зритель.“

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О спорте , О проблемах , О Боге

„Вас не волнует, что ваши оппоненты могут попытаться обратить вас к вере на смертном одре, как креационисты попытались поступить с Дарвином?
— Меня больше волнует эффект Энтони Флю. Флю был британским философом-атеистом, который на старости лет обратился. Думаю, он просто впал в маразм. И от этого-то никакой гарантии нет!“

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О старости , О вере

„Если бы сторонники расовой сегрегации были поумнее, они бы, заявили — насколько мне известно, не кривя при этом душой, — что смешение рас противоречит их религии. Большая часть оппозиции тут же почтительно удалилась бы на цыпочках. И не нужно заявлять, что это несправедливое сравнение, потому что и у расовой сегрегации нет рационального обоснования. Аналогично этому главным постулатом религиозной веры, силой её и вящей славой служит то, что от неё не требуется рационального обоснования. Остальным нам приходится отстаивать свои убеждения. Но попроси верующего обосновать его веру — и тебя обвинят в посягательстве на «свободу совести.»“

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«Иррациональность веры», 1989
Источник: R. Dawkins, The irrationality of faith. New Statesman (London), 31 March 1989.
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» (2006) // пер. с англ. Н. Смелковой. — М: КоЛибри (Иностранка), 2008. — гл. 1.

О вере , О религии , О свободе , О силе

Ричард Докинз: Цитаты на английском языке

“Three imaginary readers looked over my shoulder while I was writing, and I now dedicate the book to them. […] First the general reader, the layman […] second the expert [and] third the student.”

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Richard Dawkins книга Эгоистичный ген

Preface
The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)

“Those people who think sexual abuse is a black-or-white, all-or-none category are incapable of clear, logical thought.”

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Richard Dawkins

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“There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information.”

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Richard Dawkins

River out of Eden (1995)

“The wheel may be one of those cases where the engineering solution can be seen in plain view, yet be unattainable in evolution because it lies [on] the other side of a deep valley, cutting unbridgeably across the massif of Mount Improbable.”

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Richard Dawkins

[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]

“The second requirement of a virus-friendly environment – that it should obey a program of coded instructions – is again only quantitatively less true for brains than for cells or computers. We sometimes obey orders from one another, but also we sometimes don't. Nevertheless, it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions. Instructions to genuflect, to bow towards Mecca, to nod one's head rhythmically towards the wall, to shake like a maniac, to "speak in tongues" – the list of such arbitrary and pointless motor patterns offered by religion alone is extensive – are obeyed, if not slavishly, at least with some reasonably high statistical probability.”

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Richard Dawkins книга Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

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Richard Dawkins

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

“… but the dominance hierarchy itself is not something that natural selection favours or disfavours. What natural selection favours or disfavours is the individual behaviour of which the dominance hierarchy is a manifestation. I would put war and overpopulation in that category.”

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Richard Dawkins

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

“The absolute morality that the 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—based upon, almost say—intelligent design. Can we not design our society which has the sort of morality, the sort of society we want to live in?”

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Richard Dawkins

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

“Each generation is a filter, a sieve; good genes tend to fall through the sieve into the next generation; bad genes tend to end up in bodies that die young or without reproducing.”

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Richard Dawkins

River out of Eden (1995)

“The likelihood is that, in 100,000 years time, we shall either have reverted to wild barbarism, or else civilisation will have advanced beyond all recognition – into colonies in outer space, for instance. In either case, evolutionary extrapolations from present conditions are likely to be highly misleading.”

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Richard Dawkins

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave.”

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Richard Dawkins книга Эгоистичный ген

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

“It is generally characteristic of arms races, including human ones, that although all would be better off if none of them escalated, so long as one of them escalates none can afford not to.”

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Richard Dawkins книга The Blind Watchmaker

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

“Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it. Accepting that a virus might be difficult to detect in your own mind, what tell-tale signs might you look out for? I shall answer by imaging how a medical textbook might describe the typical symptoms of a sufferer”

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Richard Dawkins книга Viruses of the Mind

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

“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.”

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Richard Dawkins книга Unweaving the Rainbow

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

“Next time somebody tells you something that sounds important, think to yourself: 'Is this the kind of thing that people probably know because of evidence? Or is it the kind of thing that people only believe because of tradition, authority or revelation?' And, next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.”

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Richard Dawkins книга A Devil's Chaplain

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

“Well, what if I'm wrong, I mean — anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the up the mountain. There's no particular reason to pick on the Judeo-Christian god, in which by the sheerest accident you happen to have been brought up and ask me the question, "What if I'm wrong?" What if you're wrong about the great Juju at the bottom of the sea?”

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Richard Dawkins

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