Frases de Richard Dawkins página 4

“Los creacionistas están negando evidencia científica para sustentar un mito de la Edad de Bronce.”

Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

“La fe ciega puede justificar lo que sea. Si un hombre cree en un dios diferente, o incluso si usa un ritual diferente para adorar al mismo dios, la fe ciega puede decretar que debe morir ya sea en una cruz, empalado, atravesado por la espada de un cruzado, con un disparo en una calle de Beirut, o dinamitado en un bar en Belfast. Los memes de la fe ciega tienen sus propias maneras inmisericordes de propagarse a sí mismos. Esto es cierto en la fe ciega patriótica y política, al igual que en la religiosa.”

“Uno de los verdaderamente nefastos efectos de la religión es que nos inculca como virtud el estar satisfechos con el desconocimiento.”

“Sugerir que la primera causa, la gran desconocida que es responsable de que exista algo en vez de nada, es un ser capaz de diseñar el universo y de hablar a millones de personas simultáneamente, es una abdicación total de la responsabilidad de encontrar una explicación. Es una espantosa exhibición de confianza en un gancho celestial, llena de autoindulgencia y negación del pensamiento.”

The God Delusion

“Muertes en la Biblia: el dios Yahvé mató a 2.270.365 (sin incluir las víctimas de Sodoma y Gomorra, del diluvio de Noé, y de las múltiples plagas, hambrunas, fieras serpientes, etc., porque no se proporcionan cantidades específicas al respecto). Satán mató a 10.”

The God Delusion

Frases de Dios de Richard Dawkins

“Todos somos ateos respecto a la mayoría de dioses en los que la humanidad ha creído alguna vez. Algunos simplemente vamos un dios más allá.”

“Los depredadores parecen bellamente "diseñados" para cazar a sus presas, mientras que las presas parecen igual de bellamente "diseñadas" para escapar de ellos. ¿De qué lado está Dios?.”

“No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe… En una escala de siete, en la que uno significa que sé que él existe, y siete que sé que no existe, diría que soy un seis… Eso no significa que estoy absolutamente seguro, que lo sé absolutamente, porque no lo estoy.”

The God Delusion

“Lo que no puedo entender es porqué no pueden ver la extraordinaria belleza de la idea de que la vida surgió de la nada – eso es una cosa tan asombrosa, elegante, y maravillosa, ¿por qué querer saturarla con algo tan complicado como un Dios?”

Dawkins en The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html, febrero 24, 2012.

“Aceptamos alegremente que podemos amar a más de un niño, padre, hermano, profesor, amigo o mascota. Cuando pensamos en esto de esta forma, ¿no es positivamete extraña la total exclusividad que esperamos del amor conyugal?.”

Durante su conversación con el arzobispo de Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, en The Telegraph, 24 de febrero de 2012. En "Richard Dawkins: No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe (en inglés)"

Richard Dawkins Frases y Citas

“Los genes operan de manera misteriosa.”

The God Delusion

“He mantenido conversaciones absolutamente maravillosas con obispos anglicanos, y sospecho que en un momento de franqueza podrían decir que no creen en la inmaculada concepción, Pero por cada uno de ellos hay cuatro que le dirían a un niño que se va a pudrir en el infierno por dudar.”

The Selfish Gene

“Si se mira la Vía Láctea con los ojos de Carl Sagan, nos embarga el sentimiento de algo mayor que nosotros, Y así es. Pero no es sobrenatural.”

“En un universo de fuerzas físicas ciegas y reproducción genética, unos sufrirán daños y otros no, y es imposible encontrarle el sentido o la justicia”.”

“Si sólo hay un creador que hizo al tigre y al cordero, al guepardo y a la gacela, ¿a qué está jugando? ¿Es un sádico que disfruta siendo espectador de deportes sangrientos?”

“Ya no tenemos que recurrir a la superstición cuando se enfrentan a los problemas profundos: ¿Existe un sentido a la vida? ¿Qué estamos buscando? ¿Qué es el hombre?”

“El meme para una fe ciega asegura su propia perpetuación por el simple expediente inconsciente de desalentar la investigación racional.”

El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)
Original: W«e no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?»

“El argumento de este libro es que nosotros, y todos los demás animales, somos máquinas creadas por nuestros genes.”

Original en inglés: «The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)

“… Se espera del resto de nosotros que defendamos nuestros prejuicios. Pero pedirle a una persona religiosa que justifique su fe, infringe la “libertad religiosa”.”

Original en inglés: «The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)

“La población de EE. UU. es de 300 millones aproximadamente, e incluye a muchos de los seres humanos mejor educados, más talentosos y más inventivos de la Tierra. Bajo casi cualquier medida de logros civilizados (desde premios Nobeles en adelante) EE. UU. está adelantado al resto del mundo por kilómetros. Uno podría pensar que un país con tales recursos, con semejante campo de talento, sería capaz de elegir a un líder de la más alta calidad. Y sin embargo, ¿qué ha sucedido? Al final de todas las primarias y de todas las camarillas partidarias, los discursos y los debates en televisión, después de un año o más de incansable conmoción eleccionaria, ¿quién surge de toda esa población de 300 millones? George Bush.”

«The irrationality of faith» (‘La irracionalidad de la fe’). New Statesman, 31 de marzo de 1989.
1989-2003

“[El Dios del Antiguo Testamento es], sin duda el personaje más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de ello, un mezquino, injusto, un controlador implacable, un vengativo limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homófobo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, pestilente, megalómano, sadomasoquista, matón caprichosamente malévolo.”

Original en inglés: «The population of the US is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the US leads the world by miles. You would think that a country with such resources, and such a field of talent, would be able to elect a leader of the highest quality. Yet, what has happened? At the end of all the primaries and party caucuses, the speeches and the televised debates, after a year or more of non-stop electioneering bustle, who, out of that entire population of 300 million, emerges at the top of the heap? George Bush». Artículo de Dawkins en The Guardian del 22 de marzo de 2003. 1989-2003 Fuente: Dawkins, Richard. «Bin Laden's victory.» 22 de marzo de 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/22/iraq.usa The Guardian. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

“La ciencia es la poesía de la realidad.”

Original en inglés: «The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully». El Espejismo de Dios (2006) Fuente: Riemen, Rob. Para combatir esta era: Consideraciones urgentes sobre el fascismo y el humanismo. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2017. https://books.google.es/books?id=4kbVDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&dq=dawkins+%22el+personaje+m%C3%A1s+desagradable+en+toda+ficci%C3%B3n%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQh6CtpYXiAhW_BWMBHUfJAfwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%22el%20personaje%20m%C3%A1s%20desagradable%20en%20toda%20ficci%C3%B3n%22&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

“Necesitamos favorecer las evidencias verificables por sobre las observaciones personales. O nos colocaremos vulnerables a que nos obscurezcan la verdad.”

Los enemigos de la razón (2007) Fuente: Ponce, Fausto. Cosas que debes saber antes de cumplir cuarenta. Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2018. https://books.google.es/books?id=qeNVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&dq=dawkins+%C2%ABLa+ciencia+es+la+poes%C3%ADa+de+la+realidad%C2%BB&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVx5iYp4XiAhVQrxoKHUelASUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%C2%ABLa%20ciencia%20es%20la%20poes%C3%ADa%20de%20la%20realidad%C2%BB&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

“Creo que es escandaloso lo poco que les enseñan a los niños en la escuela de evolución.”

Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

“Ocasionalmente recibo una carta de alguien que está en «contacto» con extraterrestres. Se me invita a «preguntarles cualquier cosa». A lo largo de los años he preparado una lista de preguntas. No debemos olvidar que los extraterrestres están muy avanzados. Pregunto, por tanto, cosas como «Por favor, proporcióneme una prueba corta del último teorema de Fermat». O de la conjetura de Goldbach… Nunca recibo una respuesta. Por otro lado, si pregunto algo como «¿deberíamos ser buenos?», casi siempre recibo una respuesta. Estos alienígenas siempre están dispuestos a responder a cualquier cosa vaga, especialmente si involucra los clásicos juicios emocionales. Pero sobre algo específico, en lo que hay una oportunidad de descubrir si realmente saben algo más allá de lo que la mayoría de los humanos saben, solo hay silencio.”

El genio de Darwin (2008)

“Debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos el altruismo ya que no podemos esperar que éste forme parte de su naturaleza biológica”

Evolución. El mayor espectáculo sobre la Tierra

“What expertise can theologians bring to deep cosmological questions that scientists cannot?”

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins: Frases en inglés

“I don't believe you until you tell me, do you really believe, for example, if they say they are Catholic, "Do you really believe that when a priest blesses a wafer, it turns into the body of Christ? Are you seriously telling me you believe that? Are you seriously saying that wine turns into blood?" Mock them. Ridicule them. In public. Don't fall for the convention that we're all too polite to talk about religion. Religion is not off the table. Religion is not off limits. Religion makes specific claims about the universe which need to be substantiated and need to be challenged and, if necessary, need to be ridiculed with contempt.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 79

“Once again, modern theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac should not be taken as literal fact. And, once again, the appropriate response is twofold. First, many many people, even to this day, do take the whole of their scripture to be literal fact, and they have a great deal of political power over the rest of us, especially in the United States and in the Islamic world. Second, if not as literal fact, how should we take the story? As an allegory? Then an allegory for what? Surely morals could one derive from this appalling story? Remember, all I am trying to establish for the moment is that we do not, as a matter of fact, derive our morals from scripture. Or, if we do, we pick and choose among the scriptures for the nice bits and reject the nasty. But then we must have some independent criterion for deciding which are the moral bits: a criterion which, wherever it comes from, cannot come from scripture itself and is presumably available to all of us whether we are religious or not.”

Reason Rally, National Mall, Washington, DC,

“With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 275 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“On the properties of God: "Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know."”

Richard Dawkins libro Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as "faith."”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 184

“More generally (and this applies to Christianity no less than to Islam), what is really pernicious is the practice of teaching children that faith itself is a virtue. Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. Teaching children that unquestioned faith is a virtue primes them - given certain other ingredients that are not hard to come by - to grow up into potentially lethal weapons for future jihads or crusades.”

Richard Dawkins libro Viruses of the Mind

Viruses of the Mind (1993)

“Molecular evidence suggests that our common ancestor with chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between five and seven million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards … in your left hand you hold the right hand of your mother. In turn she holds the hand of her mother, your grandmother. Your grandmother holds her mother's hand, and so on … How far do we have to go until we reach our common ancestor with the chimpanzees? It is a surprisingly short way. Allowing one yard per person, we arrive at the ancestor we share with chimpanzees in under 300 miles.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), pp. 347-348 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007

“Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”

Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

"Gaps in the Mind"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.”

Richard Dawkins libro The Blind Watchmaker

Fuente: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 1 “Explaining the Very Improbable” (p. 6)

“There is no general reason to expect evolution to be progressive – even in the weak, value-neutral sense. There will be times when increased size of some organ is favoured and other times when decreased size is favoured. Most of the time, average-sized individuals will be favoured in the population and both extremes will be penalised. During these times the population exhibits evolutionary stasis (i. e., no change) with respect to the factor being measured. If we had a complete fossil record and looked for trends in some particular dimension, such as leg length, we would expect to see periods of no change alternating with fitful continuations or reversals in direction – like a weathervane in changeable, gusty weather.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 178

“Another force driving progressive evolution is the so-called "arms-race." Prey animals evolve faster running speeds because predators do. Consequently predators have to evolve even faster running speeds, and so on, in an escalating spiral. Such arms races probably account for the spectacularly advanced engineering of eyes, ears, brains, bat "radar" and all the other high-tech weaponry that animals display.”

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“We don’t need fossils – the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution”

The Evolutionary Future of Man (1993)

“I'm told theology is outside my field of expertise. But is theology a "field" at all? Is there anything in "theology" to be expert ABOUT?”

Richard Dawkins libro The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Fuente: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009), p. 164

“It is normally possible to be much more certain who your children are than who your brothers are. And you can be more certain still who you yourself are!”

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/324171554491596803 (16 April 2013) Twitter

“You don't have to be a scientist – you don't have to play the Bunsen burner – in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap. Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 6. Genesmanship

“There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.”

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“Just because science so far has failed to explain something, such as consciousness, to say it follows that the facile, pathetic explanations which religion has produced somehow by default must win the argument is really quite ridiculous.”

Richard Dawkins libro The Blind Watchmaker

Fuente: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 9 “Puncturing Punctuationism” (p. 250)

“Admittedly, people of a theological bent are often chronically incapable of distinguishing what is true from what they'd like to be true. (p. 135 of the Black Swan paperback edition of 2007)”

Steve Paulson, "The flying spaghetti monster" http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/10/13/dawkins/index3.html (), Salon.com

“If you’re seen to criticise Islam you are often accused of racism, which is absurd.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion (2006)

“Some states, e. g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching.”

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding: Yeats's 'Winds that blow through the starry ways.”

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/282850316377014272 Twitter

“You see, if you say something positive like the whole of life – all living things – is descended from a single common ancestor which lived about 4,000 million years ago and that we are all cousins, well that is an exceedingly important and true thing to say and that is what I want to say. Somebody who is religious sees that as threatening and so I am represented as attacking religion, and I am forced into responding to their reaction. But you do not have to see my main purpose as attacking religion. Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading. And that is what is so exciting for me.”

Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

Compare: "Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own." Bertrand Russell, What I Believe (1925)
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“Of course politics are important — Iraq, Palestine, even social deprivation in Bradford. But as we wake up to this huge challenge to our civilised values, don't let's forget the elephant in the room — an elephant called "religion."”

[1995-04-28, Kam Patel, Going the whole hog, Times Higher Education, http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=97718&sectioncode=26]

“There is one particular property of living things, however, that I want to single out as explicable only by Darwinian selection. This property is the one that has been the recurring topic of this book: adaptive complexity.”

Part 1, 00:00:24
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)