The atheist: An interview with Richard Dawkins

Here’s a very interesting interview with Richard Dawkins on the subjects of evolution and religion:

Still, so many people resist believing in evolution. Where does the resistance come from?

It comes, I’m sorry to say, from religion. And from bad religion. You won’t find any opposition to the idea of evolution among sophisticated, educated theologians. It comes from an exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion, which unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the United States. Not in Europe, not in Britain, but in the United States.

Let’s just hope the new Pope isn’t helping to spread the epidemic to Europe.

(Via Pharyngula .)