Humanist of the year speaks

Richard Dawkins, accepting the 1996 "Humanist of the Year" award, said this:

Don't fall for the argument that religion and science operate on separate dimensions and are concerned with quite separate sorts of questions. Religions have historically always attempted to answer the questions that properly belong to science. Thus religions should not be allowed now to retreat away from the ground upon which they have traditionally attempted to fight. They do offer both a cosmology and a biology;

And he continued,

however, in both cases it is false.