This is The Reason Interview with Nicoleseb.

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Today's episode is really one of a kind.

It can never happen again.

I mean that literally, last fall I got to interview

the great evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist

Richard Dawkins on his farewell tour.

He's hanging up his spurs after an incredible career.

We talked at Milwaukee about why he believes that science can't thrive without freedom.

Why he thinks gender ideology is starting to look a lot like Soviet lysinkoism.

We explain what that is, too, in case you don't know.

And why some truths like the binary nature of biological sex shouldn't be up for political negotiation.

He talks about his new book, The Genetic Book of the Dead, what it means to live in a colony of cooperating viruses,

and why he thinks both religious dogma and postmodern relativism are enemies of progress. And as an unapologetic postmodern

libertarian, I can tell you that we argue about that last point and a number of things along the way.

It's a really great conversation. We also explore how moral progress happens, whether atheism needs a replacement as a system or a movement, and how cultural

Christianity still casts a very long shadow in an increasingly secular world. This is a conversation

for anyone who believes that science, skepticism, and freedom belong together, and who refuses

to kowt out at ideological orthodoxy wherever it comes

from. This is the reason interview with Richard Dawkins. I want to ask, this is your

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