Rubicondior, Rosa

I am materialist rationalist who took a decision to be led by the evidence many years ago and who thinks the Universe is wonderful enough without magic and forever-hidden mystery, and that being an evolved ape, 3.5 billion years in the making, is infinitely more marvelous than being the unworthy product of a magician who made me out of dirt. I was brought up in a small North Oxfordshire village in England during the post-war baby boom and have had a love of nature since before I can remember. By any standards we were poor and grew most of the food we ate in our garden and on a allotment on the...