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How filthy is your apartment, or the food you eat? How clean does cleaning your place make it? Do you really want to know?
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Atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, may be helping usher in the next age of spiritual and religious mysticism. Now that's ironic.Â
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For life - much less human life - to have emerged on Earth, a number of unlikely factors had to be in place.Â
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