Richard Dawkins
Activist, Biologist, and Author
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Where are all these militant atheists?...column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. The readers of Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens are, they tell us, crass because they do not appreciate the mystery of religion,... In this article: John Denham, Labour, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ed Balls, Shahid Malik, Britain, Communalism, Islam, and Tories |
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Telegraph.co.uk - How about that | September 30, 2009
International blasphemy day: from Danish cartoons to Jerry Springer The Opera
Within a year they had achieved their goal. MPs voted to abolish the laws in May 2008, after a campaign supported by the author Philip Pullman and the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Edward Leigh, a Conservative MP, said the move...
In this article: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Jesus Christ, Islam, Christianity, and Christian Voice
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Wikipedia | July 26, 2009
New Humanist
...Laurie Taylor , Noam Chomsky, Stan Cohen , Christopher Hitchens, Polly Toynbee, Baroness Susan Greenfield, Nick Cohen, Richard Dawkins and many more. The current editor is Caspar Melville. New Humanist is a member of the Eurozine network.
In this article: New Humanist, Eurozine, Nick Cohen, Nicolas Walter, Polly Toynbee, HG Wells, Phillip Pullman, Bertrand Russell, and Noam Chomsky
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Reason Magazine - Topics > Books | February 26, 2008
A Secular Fantasy: The flawed but fascinating fiction of Philip Pullman - Reason Magazine
...a boycott.) There is a certain irony to this, since the movie opens on the heels of an atheist revival of sorts, heralded by such recent books as Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great and Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. It remains to...
In this article: Philip Pullman, God, His Dark Materials, Will Parry, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord Asriel, The Golden Compass, The Amber Spyglass, and Magisterium
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CNET News.com | January 26, 2008
Church of Scientology responds to Internet attacks Defense in Depth - computer security, hacking, crime, viruses - CNET News
...here. If you are an atheist who agrees on that point of view, then you must condemn other atheists who attack religions like Richard Dawkins attacking many religions with his books like "The God Delusion" and Phillip Pullman's "His Dark...
In this article: Church of Scientology, Tom Cruise, Catholic Church, David Miscavige, L. Ron Hubbard, CNET News, Ideology, Heroin, Jacob Bronowski, and Joseph Goebbels
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New York Times | January 21, 2008
Inspiring Evolutionary Thought, and a New Title, by Turning Genetics Into Prose
Though composed of essays that are mostly by Dr. Dawkins's admirers, this book presents a vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution.
In this article: The Selfish Gene, Philip Pullman, Sociobiology, John Maynard Smith, Alan Grafen, Richard Harries, Robert L. Trivers, John Krebs, and Oxford
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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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