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Prof. Richard Dawkins: I'm a Romantic Soul

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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The Beauty of Nature

When I hear you talk about a Yates poem, you don't sound that different to religious people. So there's this odd sense in which it almost becomes a linguistic distinction,. A mystic or a religious person might feel moved by in the natural world, compared to what you feel moved by. Supernaturalism says there is something beyond physics, beyond the material world, which I do not believe. These are all human reactions, which I feel as strongly as anyone. But there is nothing supernatural about that.

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