Welcome to Star Talk.

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I'm Neil LeGrasse Tyson. I'm the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hadoot Planetary, right here in New York City.

And tonight's topic, science and religion.

I've got with me my intrepid cohost, Eugene Merman.

Eugene, by comedic cohost.

Excellent. And we're featuring today my interview with the renowned evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins.

He's like primary atheist of the world.

And so if you're going to talk about science and religion, you need people like that to find out where they think and where they're taking us, what's it all about.

But we couldn't just feature Richard Dawkins. We need some other views here. And so we combed the landscape.

And we found a Jesuit priest. This is the academic order of the Catholic Church.

And we have with us, Father Martin. Welcome to Star Talk.

Thank you very much.

You have a business degree apparently. Is that correct that I was here?

I do. I went to the Wharton School of Business before I entered the Jesuit.

We see priests, we just don't think of priests as doing all this other stuff. But you did.

I did. And most of us do. Most of us enter the priesthood with a little life experience. Thank God.

Okay. Oh, thank God.

You can say thank God. That's cool.

And rest of us say it should be really do that. But you have the authority to do so.

Feel free to say thank God as much as you want.

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