The Richard Dawkins Interview
TheThinkingAtheist
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The Challenge of Being a Civilian Scientist
"I came late to the understanding of a universe that was not 6,000 years old," he says. "Although I don't understand physics in any detail, I believe it works because it's been shown by the tried and tested methods of science to work" The mistake is to argue from authority rather than to argue from evidence, he adds. 'It doesn't matter whether somebody has the letters PhD after his name, the evidence doesn't support him'
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