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Letter: Converting Dawkins

Published 15 April 2009

From Reginald Le Sueur

Mary Midgley states that “many are anticipating [Richard Dawkins’s] conversion with some interest” (21 March, p 22). I think it very likely that, when the time comes, evangelists will be queuing up to try to convert him on his deathbed, hoping to make Lady Hope-style conversion claims as they did with Charles Darwin.

Dawkins has, I believe, stated that he will have a running tape recorder secreted about his person – so such people should beware, lest they are caught in the act.

St Peter, Jersey, Channel Islands

Issue no. 2704 published 18 April 2009

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