Author of quotes: Richard Dawkins. Page 1
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.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 10:48
Philosophers say that in the death of the old man is nothing special. Kid he once was, died a long time ago- not in one moment, and day by day, growing into an adult. "Death" of each of the released people of Shakespeare's seven ages going through a slow transition to the next. From this point of view, the time of emission of the old man's last breath is no different from what was happening in life-long gradual "dying".
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 10:48
Genes exert their effects by regulating protein synthesis. This is a very powerful way to impact the world, but the method is slow. For months we have patiently pulling the protein strings, to create the embryo.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:01
Viruses consist of pure DNA (or similar self-replicating molecule) surrounded by a protein coat. They are all parasites. It is assumed that they arose out of the "rebellious" genes that were freed and now travel from body to body directly through the air, rather than the more traditional way - in such "crews", as the sperm and egg. If so, we could equally well see ourselves as a colony of viruses.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:01
Genes do indirectly regulate the construction of organisms, and the influence is one-way: acquired characteristics are not inherited. No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you have accumulated during your life; not a single drop will not go to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts out of nowhere. Genes use the body to remain unchanged.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:01
Individuals are not eternal, they are transitory. Chromosomes also go into oblivion, like a stack of cards received by each player and played soon after delivery. But by the cards during the shuffle, nothing happens. The cards are genes. Genes are not destroyed in the crossing over, they just change partners and continue to move forward. Of course, they move on. It's their job. They are the replicators and we are the machines needed for them to survive. After we completed its task, we have discarded. But genes come from geological time, they are here forever.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:00
The lack of immediate error that it is often fatal.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:00
Deviated so much from the topic, I can't resist in order not to go just a little further.
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MegaMozg 13-01-2017 / 09:00
Responsible for the bringing of evidence are believers, not atheists.
No sane person will not allow the fact of unproven invention of flying teapots and fairies served as the clincher in an important dispute. We did not feel obliged to waste time on the refutation of the myriad myths, generated by a wealth of imagination.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:57
Selected examples can never serve as a serious argument against any generalizations that you trust.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:12
From evolutionary theory there is one curious aspect - everyone thinks that he understands her.
Quote Explanation: Words belong to Jacques Mono.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:12
Incidentally, even those people who are concerned with the problems of population, do not always understand that the growth of its population depends on the age at which people have children, and these children. Because the population usually increases by a certain amount in a generation, it follows that by increasing the gap between the generations can reduce the rate of population growth for the year. Slogans calling "Stop at two" could equally well be replaced by the slogan "Start thirty years!"
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:12
The cause of our eternal torment is the inability of too many of us to understand that words are only tools that exist in order to use them, and that if the dictionary has such a word as "live", then this does not mean that it refers to something specific in the real world.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:12
We must teach our children altruism, since it cannot be expected that it is part of their biological nature.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:12
Contraceptive use is sometimes criticized as "unnatural." Yes, it is very unnatural. The trouble is that unnatural and the welfare state.
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MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 20:11
