VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Tesh|DATE|1382354135|CONTENT|part 2 - This is the part of the interview that so many people leapt on: 
Interviewer: But are you one of those who believe that science and religion are compatible, or do you think, as Richard Dawkins does, that religious faith is a fraud that has been unmasked by scientific knowledge?  
Higgs. I do agree with Dawkins, but only up to a certain point.  I believe that advances in scientific knowledge has weakened many of the reasons for which people held to their religious faith but this is not the same as saying that that science and religion are totally incompatible.  I believe that a person can be both scientific and religious at the same time as long as their beliefs are not dogmatic. 
 In fact, in an interview with El Mundo the director of the Atlas experiment in CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, declared that she was a believer and that for her there was no conflict between her  scientific work and her Catholic faith.  
Higgs:  that doesn’t surprise me. I know many colleagues in my field who are believers.  I am not one, but neither am I against religious people as long as they do not behave like fanatical extremists.  The problem with  Dawkins is that he focuses all his attacks against the fundamentalists, but it’s clear that not all believers are.  In this sense I think that at times it is Dawkins himself who ends up taking a fundamentalist position, from the opposite extreme. 
[From here they go on to discuss the economic crisis in Spain, especially the cuts to education and how these will affect science and young people.  Nowhere does he describe Dawkins as an embarrassment and nowhere does he refer to his own family background.] 
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