Tuesday, August 25, 2009

News at Eleven: "Very few people don't have some belief system

that includes something other than themselves. That just seems to be part of the tool kit that we have as human beings."

[Margaret] Atwood herself was, she says, brought up to be "a strong agnostic". Science runs strong in her family. Her father was an entomologist who made studies of bees. Her elder brother is a biologist. "If I get the science wrong," she says, "I hear about it." Her eyes, which appear on my video screen as discrete frozen images, gleam with good humour and the gentle, questioning smile never fades.

from Telegraph: Margaret Atwood

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