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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

~Richard Dawkins

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My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

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Natural selection is anything but random.

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You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

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God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

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Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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