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205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

The Michael Shermer Show

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Why Do People Go to Church?

'I think the larger problem is explaining religion,' he says. 'It's so big a concept, entails so many different things, that it can't have one cause.' He thinks most believers don't go to church because of cosmological arguments or fine-tuning argument. But they do for all sorts of reasons - including free parking and moral homily at end of sermon.

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