Richard Dawkins

In Britain, you don't usually learn about evolution until you are about 15. I should have thought that you should start at about 8. But I could be wrong about that.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.

The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't.

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.