Author of quotes: Richard Dawkins

Under certain special circumstances, a gene is best able to achieve its own selfish goals by encouraging a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.

We are all by nature prisoners of intermittent consciousness.

- You have one wish. What would you wish for?
- Probably to all around the world have built their lives and beliefs based on the evidence, refused to superstition in any form, including religion. Sought to do good, lived according to conscience, happy life, and that until the death makes the world a better than when they had arrived in.

Responsible parents must give the child only scientifically proven information. Children can explain that evolution. This bird is the white-tailed eagle. The tree in the garden - birch. Of course, it is necessary to tell that in the world there are religious people and there are many different beliefs. But to hammer them in the head of the fable that has the world's only God who in six days, everything here was designed and created, is a real abuse of an adult.

... is to prove that hatred is a religious one, and it is not considered as hatred.

Blind faith can justify anything. If a man worships another deity, or even if it is in their worship of the same deity has a different ritual, blind faith can sentence him to death on the cross, on the stake, the sword of the Crusader, from a shot on one of the streets of Beirut or the explosion in one of the bars of Belfast. Memes of blind faith have their own, not knowing pity distribution methods; this applies not only to religion but also to patriotism and politics.

Many children and even some adults believe that they will incur after the death of the horrible tortures if they fail to comply with the requirements of the Church. This is a particularly nasty method of persuasion, causing people a strong psychological suffering in the middle ages and retained its influence even today. But it is extremely effective. One might think that this method was invented by the Machiavellian clergy who are specially trained in psychological methods of influence.

As I said, the female is also advantageous to the courtship process, the male brought her food.
In birds is usually considered as a kind of return to the juvenile behavior on the part of females. Begging for food from the male, she accompanies this movement, typical for young birds. It was assumed that such behavior automatically attract a male, just as the man seems attractive when a grown woman babbles or purses her lips like a child.

Since one male could theoretically produce enough sperms to service a harem of 100 females, one would assume that the ratio of females and males in animal populations should be 100:1. You can Express it like this: the male "cheaper", and females are of great "value" for the species.

People who have more children than they are able to grow probably in most cases too ignorant to be accused of malicious exploitation. As for powerful institutions and leaders who knowingly incite to the many children, they, I think, is not so naive.

But they really are guilty - so it is in the suggestion of their faith to a child whose mind is not yet ripe to decide whether to worship the sun or not.

As demonstrated in his works, my late colleague W. D. Hamilton, animal care, protect, share resources, warn of danger and show the altruism of a different kind, usually in relation to the next of kin because of the statistical probability that they have genes is large.

Under asymmetric needs and opportunities natural selection shows a preference for genes, inducing the organisms, if possible, share it, and in the absence of such opportunities - encourage others. In addition, shown the ability to remember debts, to show resentment, to check for the fair transaction and to punish the Dodgers, benefiting from favours but not returning the debt.

It is no exaggeration to say that most of my fellow atheists hide their views behind a facade of piety. They themselves in anything supernatural do not believe, but continue to feel a vague sympathy for irrational beliefs. They believe in faith. It's amazing how often people do not see the difference between the statements "X is true" and "I would like everyone to believe that X is true." Maybe in fact they do not commit this logical fallacy, but just think that compared to human feelings really is not so important. I do not want to belittle the role of human emotions and feelings. But let us in each discussion at the outset to clarify what we will talk: about feelings or about the truth. Both are important, but they are different things.