Beyond the Book
Richard Dawkins was born Clinton Richard Dawkins in March 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya. When
he was eight his family moved to England where he attended Oundle School, and then
Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class BA degree in zoology in
1962, followed by MA and DPhil degrees in 1966. He describes his childhood as "a normal Anglican upbringing", but started to doubt the existence of God when he was about nine years old. He later reconverted persuaded by the argument that a designer had been necessary to create the universe. However in his teens, when he better understood evolution, he came to the conclusion that evolution could account for the complexity of life and that a designer was not necessary.
For two years starting...
