Richard Dawkins Quotes
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Bantam Books, 2006, p. 58.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
Voltaire was also an amateur scientist and was familiar with the new physics of Newton. His mistress, was one of the best scientists in France and the translator of Newton into French. Voltaire marveled at the logic that drove the universe and assumed that there must have been a prime mover. At the same time, although believing in God, Voltaire, like many other intellectuals of the time, were major enemies of organized religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular. See {621191} .
This quotation is noteworthy because although there are some scientists who are sympathetic to the religious fundamentalist view of the origin of the universe, they are almost always second class scientists. In this case, the scientist is a first class scientist, a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. So his quotation has more weight than of most others and is used more often by many fundamentalists who support the Biblical Genesis version of creation rather than the Big Bang scientific explanations and evolution. There are however many great scientists who also are people of faith in a God. They may be religious, but like most religious Americans, interpret the Bible metaphorically and symbolically rather than literally as the fundamentalists do.
Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. An atheist, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design.
