Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins Quotes
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
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| Birth: | 26th March, 1941 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Ethologist, Professor, Writer |
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is an English 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.
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