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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the acclaimed author of many books including The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. Visit him at RichardDawkins.net.

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A Universe from Nothing will be released on January 01, 2013 in Trade Paperback
Jan 01, 2013
A Universe from Nothing is now available in Trade Paperback
Jan 01, 2013
The Illustrated Magic of Reality will be released on September 11, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Sep 11, 2012
The Illustrated Magic of Reality is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 11, 2012
The Magic of Reality is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 11, 2012
The Magic of Reality will be released on September 11, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Sep 11, 2012
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Chapter 1 from The Illustrated Magic of Reality
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A Universe from Nothing will be released on January 10, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012
A Universe from Nothing is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 10, 2012
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Preface from A Universe from Nothing
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The Magic of Reality
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The Magic of Reality
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The Magic of Reality will be released on October 04, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
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PublishersWeekly.com, June 7, 2013
...and why did you choose this title? Oh, the title is an attempt to pick a fight with Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, and the New Atheist crowd. One common characteristic of this group is jaw-dropping arrogance. This arrogance makes them...
Slate Magazine, June 7, 2013
...argues that science isn’t the only way of looking at the world. Illustration by Jess Fink When Richard Dawkins was named the world’s “Top Thinker” in a poll recently published by Prospect magazine, it was hard to avoid the suspicion that the...
Scottish Daily Express, June 7, 2013
...rise and fall. It has one of the most shocking opening chapters in literature. The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins Penguin, £9.99 I know Dawkins can be really annoying but there can be no argument about his writing talent. I thought I understood...
RTE Online, June 4, 2013
...foresee or control, as a result of which difficulties that are presently intractable will be left behind. Unlike Richard Dawkins, for instance, he readily accepts the need for myth, be it of a secular or religious kind. Rational or not, life without myth...
New Statesman, June 4, 2013
...no matter how big or small, must always stay out of the bedroom. But I am also (to Richard Dawkins’s continuing disappointment) a believing Muslim. And, as a result, I really do struggle with this issue of homosexuality. As a supporter of secularism, I...
AlterNet.org, June 4, 2013
...debates about religion in the contemporary U.S. are still rooted in debates about belief. Prominent public atheists like Richard Dawkins speak about religion as though it’s something we need to understand rationally. How would these public debates...
Christian Post, June 3, 2013
...is seen in this public Facebook profile photo.RelatedRichard Dawkins Explains His Refusal to Debate Christian Apologist Craig Richard Dawkins recently revealed why he refused to debate Christian apologist ... Is the New Testament Forged? A new book by...
World News Network, June 1, 2013
...Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, which was originated by Richard Dawkins and Douglas Hofstadter in the 1980s. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A...
STLtoday.com, June 1, 2013
...he left his Methodist faith for humanism, he read today’s standard pantheon of “New Atheist” authors — Richard Dawkins, Hitchens and Sam Harris. But when he discovered the collected speeches of Ingersoll, something grabbed him. “His words are...
Bayside Review Local, June 1, 2013
...at all periods of their history. Chalmers isn't issuing a blaring clarion call for science, a la Richard Dawkins. His book could easily be cherry-picked to construct an all-out attack on science. This is not what Chalmers intends. He doubts, queries...
South Coast Register, May 31, 2013
...at all periods of their history. Chalmers isn't issuing a blaring clarion call for science, a la Richard Dawkins. His book could easily be cherry-picked to construct an all-out attack on science. This is not what Chalmers intends. He doubts, queries...
Macarthur Advertiser, May 31, 2013
...at all periods of their history. Chalmers isn't issuing a blaring clarion call for science, a la Richard Dawkins. His book could easily be cherry-picked to construct an all-out attack on science. This is not what Chalmers intends. He doubts, queries...
Merimbula News, May 31, 2013
...at all periods of their history. Chalmers isn't issuing a blaring clarion call for science, a la Richard Dawkins. His book could easily be cherry-picked to construct an all-out attack on science. This is not what Chalmers intends. He doubts, queries...
Wagin Argus, May 31, 2013
...at all periods of their history. Chalmers isn't issuing a blaring clarion call for science, a la Richard Dawkins. His book could easily be cherry-picked to construct an all-out attack on science. This is not what Chalmers intends. He doubts, queries...