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Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 26
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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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