Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: b. February 22, 1943
Birthday: February 22
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
source: "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.
topic: Book, Ideas, Bird, God Delusion