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Today on CBC's "The Current" Anna Marie Tremonte spoke with Richard Dawkins . What an awesome, enlightening interview! Listen here if you dare.

Richard Dawkins is one of the best-known and most controversial scientists in the world. Three years ago, his book The God Delusion sparked some very biblical fury from some of the world's faithful especially conservative Christians in the United States.

Richard Dawkins has written a new book ... a return to his first great passion, evolution. It is called The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.

One of the great quotes from the interview paraphrased:

You wouldn't go to see a doctor who didn't know how to practice medicine and didn't have a degree. You wouldn't go to a lawyer who wasn't qualified. So why do we elect politicians who are uneducated and are proud of it? ( I love that one!)

And he talked about people (some politicians) who believe the earth is only 6,000 years old. He said this is such an incorrect statement it would be like (and this has been calculated) saying New York is 28 yards from San Francisco.

He also takes to task people who believe in intelligent design , which is believing that there is so much perfection of all creatures in the world that they must be made by a higher power. In fact, he says that there is so much unintelligent design that it can only be explained by evolution ,DNA, isotopes and billions of years. Makes sense to me. Hey, I don't care if people believe in a higher power, that's up to them. But to believe that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and dinosaurs never existed is just ignorant. Is that intelligent design?

Evolution is an inescapable fact, and we should celebrate its astonishing power, simplicity and beauty. Evolution is within us, around us, between us, and its workings are embedded in the rocks of aeons past.

Can't wait to read this book!