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Conor Fitzgerald's avatar

I disagree with Dawkins on various things and I sense it’s become uncool to like him in even right-adjacent spaces, but he’s a really underrated writer. I mean sentence to sentence, clarity, span of reference, rather than his ideas per se… as you write he’s a dying breed, which is our loss.

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StatisticsThomas's avatar

I nearly cried reading this, Ed. I've waited decades to read an appreciation of Professor Dawkins - one of our all time great Britons - by one who is honestly a believer, secure enough in your faith that you don't sneer, as so many of his religious critics have, at an intellect so cathedral-like in its beauty. Thank you. This is truly beautiful writing about a truly beautiful mind.

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