Quotes by Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces i — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the t — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less tha — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force th — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that mea — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary ju — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genom — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is suc — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed t — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks a — Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution