Speaking of bloody new atheists: Dawkins still insists "I'm not the least bit strident or shrill." But is it just inherently shrill to ask for the extraordinary evidence that would support the extraordinary claims of ordinary believers? I don't think so. Neither, I'll bet, did his ten-year old when Dawkins wrote to her:
"Dear Juliet," he began. "Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is important to me. Have you ever wondered how we know the things that we know? How do we know, for instance, that the stars, which look like tiny pinpricks in the sky, are really huge balls of fire like the sun and are really far away? And how do we know that Earth is a smaller ball whirling round one of those stars, the sun? The answer to these questions is 'evidence.' "
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