Richard Baker wrote:
>
> So far as I can tell, Dawkins is talking about his friends at
> universities in the UK and US, his point being that there are at
> least some people for whom religion doesn't seem to be an innate part
> of existence. I'd imagine that his friends tend to be more atheistic
> than the rest of the population. I'd also imagine that nobody has
> performed rigorous research on Dawkins' friends as a population.
>
Sampling from friends to prove something is very unscientific. Just
to add unscience to the discussion, just because I know lots of
vegetarians (and a few almost-pure carnivores) doesn't mean 
that I must reject the hypothesis that humans are omnivores.

Alberto Monteiro
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