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I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each of them is given 20 minutes to give their point of view, and then 10 minutes for a rebuttal, or whatever, that creates the illusion that you really do have here two equal points of view of equal scientific standing.
I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.
I love romantic poetry.
I love words.
I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.
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