“If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.”

— Susan Blackmore

Life lessons http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5164417-111414,00.html, Guardian, 04/07/2005

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British writer and academic 1951

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