I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
From Richard Dawkins
My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'
I love words.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
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.
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
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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