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WFMU - 'The Ancestor's Tale' Interview

Richard Dawkins

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Origianally posted December 20, 2004.

WFMU interviews Richard Dawkins about his book "The Ancestor's Tale."

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Quotes of Note:

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."

Mark Twain

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."

Richard Dawkins

"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different."

Richard Dawkins

"Group selection of any kind is not Darwinism as Darwin understood it nor as I understand it."

Richard Dawkins

"Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here)."

Richard Dawkins