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I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

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Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

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I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

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When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

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For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

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The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

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We have the power to turn against our creators.

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A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

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Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

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The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: March 26th, 1941

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