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There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving - she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, 'What if you are wrong?' and I answered that rather briefly, and that's gone viral.

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Richard Dawkins talks about a viral YouTube clip of a young woman questioning him during a lecture at Liberty University, a religious institution, and his brief yet impactful response.
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Scientist, British
Richard Dawkins is a British scientist known for his work in evolutionary biology and popular science writing.
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