Letter: Dawkins: the last word from a scientist
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Perhaps the late, and great, scientist Peter Medawar may be allowed a last word in the "Dawkins versus religion" discussion:
There is no quicker way for a scientist to bring discredit upon himself and upon his profession that roundly to declare - particularly when no declaration of any kind is called for - that science knows or soon will know the answers to all questions worth asking, and that questions which do not admit a scientific answer are in some way non-questions or "pseudoquestions" that only simpletons ask and only the gullible profess to be able to answer.
(Advice to a young scientist, 1979)
IAN FLINTOFF
London SW6
n An error in transcription of a letter published on 11 March from Canon John Inge, of Ely Cathedral, produced the statement that "there is a shortage of religious people who could be relied upon to produce intelligent, informed and constructive contributions to any debate". This should have read "there is no shortage ..."
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