Richard Dawkins on God

Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Paley’s argument is made with passionate sincerity and is informed by the best biological scholarship of his day, but it is wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong.

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Animals

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry1921–1991

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.