
276. From Atheism to Aliens: A Journey with Richard Dawkins
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The Human Needs to Believe
You can't will yourself to believe something. Either you believe it or you don't. If there's a God, he doesn't want me to be on my knees doing all this pious, boring stuff. At what point in your life did you realize you were an atheist? About 15. Do you remember what made that happen? Well, understanding Darwinism. Every single generation is the same species as the previous generation. The change is so gradual. There's no one moment when any species changes into another species. But if you take that gradual process back and back and back far enough, you'll come to a fish.
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