Quote by Richard Dawkins
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. – Richard Dawkins

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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. – Richard Dawkins

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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. – Richard Dawkins

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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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