The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
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RICHARD DAWKINS I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,'... RICHARD DAWKINS Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingle... RICHARD DAWKINS Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human... RICHARD DAWKINS Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,... RICHARD DAWKINS The interesting question would be whether there's a Darwinian process, a kind of selection proce... RICHARD DAWKINS I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the bac... RICHARD DAWKINS Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ... RICHARD DAWKINS Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stor... RICHARD DAWKINS It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc... RICHARD DAWKINS If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of s... RICHARD DAWKINS Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we tho... RICHARD DAWKINS You could give Ar... RICHARD DAWKINS Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated soci... RICHARD DAWKINS Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about... RICHARD DAWKINS As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival wi... RICHARD DAWKINS It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, Lon... RICHARD DAWKINS