Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins Quotes
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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| 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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