Quotes from Richard Dawkins

If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

...I am not attacking any particular God or gods. I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, whenever or wherever they have been or will be invented.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferocious defence? One might have supposed him amply capable of looking after himself.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

If I were God wanting to make a human being, I would do it by a more direct way rather than by evolution. Why deliberately set it up in the one way which makes it look as though you don't exist?

If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh in.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.