Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His book The Selfish Gene (1976) popularised the...

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