Richard Dawkins. Dawkins wrote there were top scientists in the US and the UK - ``talented, creative people, desperate to escape the redneck bigotry of their home countries''. ``Dear New Zealand, you are a deeply civilized small nation, with a low population in a pair of beautiful, spacious islands,'' he wrote. ``Offer them citizenship,'' Dawkins wrote. ``You could make New Zealand the Athens of the modern world.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 11, 2016 07:36 UTC