Onstage at the New Yorker Festival earlier this month, Richard Dawkins walks us through a thought experiment taken from his latest work, The Magic of Reality.
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'