James Watson is the Nobel Prize winning scientist who (with Francis Crick) discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. He recently filmed a segment for Chris Johnson‘s multimedia book about atheists and what gives them joy and meaning in life,

Watson is no stranger to controversial statements, but in the segment below, he speaks about DNA as a “beautiful truth” and how it didn’t quite upend religion as Crick thought it would:

(via The Atheist Book)



