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A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution : KPCC

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A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution Aired: Friday, November 26, 2004

World-renowned biologist Richard Dawkins joins Larry Mantle to discuss his most comprehensive book on evolution yet. The Ancestors Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Houghton Mifflin), based loosely on the Canterbury Tales, takes us back in time from today’s vast diversity to the first bacterium, shedding light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory.

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Quotes of Note:

"Aquarius is a miscellaneous set of stars all at different distances from us, which have no connection with each other except that they constitute a (meaningless) pattern when seen from a certain (not particularly special) place in the galaxy (here)."

Richard Dawkins

"I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system."

Gore Vidal

"The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans."

Richard Dawkins

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

"The War Prayer: "O Lord our God, help us to tear their bodies to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded.""

Mark Twain