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What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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