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We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Snake Oil and Holy Water." Forbes ASAP, 4 Oct. 1999.

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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 11.

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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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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Richard Dawkins: You Ask the Questions Special." The Independent, 4 Dec. 2006.

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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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On natural selection.

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

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The Selfish Gene

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Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 1.

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They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.