on religion

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."
- Richard Dawkins

best carver in british history

St. Paul's Choir, London

- Grinling Gibbons [1648-1721] was discovered as a chippy [carver] in the dockyard of Deptford by Sir Christopher Wren’s friend John Evelyn [1620-1706].

An earlier reference to Wren here.