Quote by Richard Dawkins
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. – Richard Dawkins

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Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. – Richard Dawkins

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If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, youll get back cash. If you dont have faith, youll get soggy bread. – Don King

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You cannot be President of the United States if you dont have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff. – George H. W. Bush

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Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith. – Dinesh DSouza

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