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You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.
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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.
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I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that still doesn't mean that what anybody else has to offer therefore has to be true.
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