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Ep293 - Professor Richard Dawkins | The Magic of Reality

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The Only Good Reason to Believe Anything

Professor Dorkins says it's a disreputable thing to bring children up with Bronze Age falsehoods when they could be being exposed to this wonderful truth. The only reason to believe anything is evidence and nowadays we have enormous amounts of evidence, he adds. Google are running a competition called The Science Fair which encourages teenagers to come up with questions that can drive scientific inquiry. What's your advice to the child or teenager who is looking for inspiration for their question and how do they find questions in their world?

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