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• I’m not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

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• I’m a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

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• I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

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• I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s something for research.

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• I mean I think that when you’ve got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

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• I love words.

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• I love romantic poetry.

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• I don’t know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

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• I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

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• I don’t feel depressed. I feel elated.

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• I didn’t have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

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• I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

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• I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

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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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• Evolution never looks to the future.

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• Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

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• At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.

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• At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

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• The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

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• We are a very, very unusual species.

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Richard Dawkins (94)

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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