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Ancient and modern

Lucretius vs Richard Dawkins

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

17 August 2013

9:00 AM

Richard Dawkins has been confusing his categories again, comparing Trinity College, Cambridge, with Islam. His attack on religion does precisely the same, as if the pre-scientific Biblical account of the world somehow disproves the whole religious phenomenon. The Roman poet Lucretius (c. 100–55 BC) had argued in this way long before Dawkins.

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