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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.
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I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.
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Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
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They are in you and me they created us, body and mind and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
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The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.
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