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Old 29-June-2009, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by parallaxicality View Post
He has given his blessing to a summer camp for eight- to seventeen year-olds [snip]..... Does anyone think Dawkins is expecting eight year olds to do all that?
No, of course not, but a very valuable exercise for a seventeen-year-old.

ETA: I think you are being a bit hard on him. His purpose is to get the children to think for themselves, which is more than the religion-based summer camps do. There is credit in that, surely?
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