Richard Dawkins
Activist, Biologist, and Author
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Dawkins: Evangelist an 'idiot' on evolution...design. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot. Richard Dawkins Responding to Dawkins' criticism, Comfort issued a statement to CNN. "If the views expressed in my introduction of... In this article: Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Ray Comfort, God, On the Origin of Species, U.S., CNN, E mail, Apollo, and Thor |
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CNN | 1 day ago
Darwin and the case for 'militant atheism'
...years before the truth finally dawned on one of them. His name was Charles Darwin." Watch the TED Talk by Richard Dawkins Dawkins argues that there is no doubt that Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is true and,...
In this article: Charles Darwin, Evolution, God, Alfred Wallace, CNN, United States, E mail, and Origin of Species
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Michigan Live | 1 day ago
Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' turns 150; evolution vs. creationism debate rages on
...including how it has been used to justify racism. In an interview with the A.V. Club, prominent atheist and Darwin proponent Richard Dawkins called that interpretation an "appalling" perversion of Darwinian theory. What was Darwin...
In this article: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Time Magazine, Skeptic, Michael Shermer, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and A.V. Club
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Salon | 2 days ago
Creationism vs. atheism: It's on!
...or the free exchange of ideas. The Living Waters Web site reveals Comfort to be obsessed with goading atheists, specifically Richard Dawkins, who is featured in almost as many of the site's videos as Comfort is and whom Comfort has...
In this article: Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, GOP, Banana, and Chimpanzee
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Washington Times | 2 days ago
BOOK REVIEW: A civil conversation about religion
...the field, or at any rate drives to other locales those merely seeking a chance to talk. Ms. Armstrong sees the strutting atheist Richard Dawkins (a one-time Anglican acolyte) as prototype of the narrowed, intolerant perspective in...
In this article: Karen Armstrong, God, Anglican, Ghazzali, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Karl Popper, and William Murchison
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Daily Mail | 4 days ago
QUENTIN LETTS: One in the eye for atheists? Now there's a thought
...such as Claire Rayner. Thank God. Meanwhile, one of the world's top cosmologists distanced himself from Richard Dawkins. You know Dawkins: that soundbite- savvy Oxford biologist, the ayatollah of atheism whose adherents are as...
In this article: Evan Davis, Pope Benedict XVI, John Barrow, Edinburgh, and Cambridge University
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Times Online | 5 days ago
Public faces of Richard Dawkins' athiesm campaign were ... devout Christian children
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Public faces of Richard Dawkins' athiesm campaign were ... devout Christian children The two children chosen to front Richard Dawkins' latest assault on God could not look more free of...
In this article: Philip Pullman, Charlotte, Christianity, God, Derren Brown, AC Grayling, and Noel Richards
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PR Newswire | 6 days ago
Video: Richard Dawkins Calls Prominent Creationist 'Banana Man'
Richard Dawkins Calls Prominent Creationist 'Banana Man' 1,200 Christians Deliver 170,000 Free Copies of Darwin's Origin of Species at 100 Top Universities, Celebrate 150th Anniversary Ray Comfort is Available for Interviews LOS...
In this article: Ray Comfort, The Origin of Species, God, Charles Darwin, Banana, American Atheists, Inc., Kirk Cameron, and Oxford
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 16, 2009
The secret life of caterpillar investing
...the great stocks you've missed out on than the ones you've actually bought, or the duds you avoided. In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins explains how this is a very human (and costly) trait. While mistakes are costly facts,...
In this article: Repco, JB Hi-fi, and Unweaving the Rainbow
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San Jose Mercury News | November 06, 2009
Richard Dawkins, celebrity of the evolutionary world
Updated: 11/06/2009 04:16:02 PM PST LONDON - It won't thrill his publishers to hear this, but Richard Dawkins appears largely uninterested in standard authorial topics - like his new book, his writing habits or even himself. Instead, he...
In this article: The Greatest Show on Earth, Homo sapiens sapiens, The God Delusion, Charles Simonyi, Chimpanzee, Goat, and Giraffe
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L.A. Times - National News | November 04, 2009
Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate
...behind the process. Yet today only 4 in 10 Americans believe that evolution occurred. British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, an eminent scholar and outspoken atheist, has for decades written best-selling books on evolutionary...
In this article: Evolution, Charles Darwin, Banana, Chimpanzee, Aardvark, World War II, E. coli, and On the Origin of Species
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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.
- Birth Date:
- March 26, 1941
- Birthplace:
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Religion:
- Atheist
- Ethnicity:
- English
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
- Lalla Ward
- Students:
- Residence:
- Oxford, England
- University Attended:
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Field:
- Ethologist and evolutionary biologist
- Known for:
- Criticism of religion
- Advocacy of atheism and rationalism
- Introduction of meme concept
- Gene-centred view of evolution
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