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Richard Dawkins

RICHARD DAWKINS, is an evolutionary biologist, best selling author and outspoken atheist. He has established himself as a guru of evolution with the publication of books detailing and expanding upon Darwinian theory. Until his retirement this year, he was the Charles Simonyi Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University. He is the author most recently of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. His other books include The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden (ScienceMasters Series), Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale, and The God Delusion.... Read full bio

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Hindustan Times, February 10, 2012
...Wasteland Story: Srividya Natarajan Art: Aparajita Ninan navayana Rs. 220 pp 128 One hundred and thirty-three years before Richard Dawkins launched his frontal attack against the idea of god in his 2006 book The God Delusion, Jotirao Govindrao...
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...of light. Very many familiar figures have created this "unwoven" braid, with Blake and Keats at their head. Richard Dawkins tried to address this attack head-on by calling one of his books Unweaving the Rainbow . The Dawkins line is that science adds to...
Associated Content, February 5, 2012
...were sharply controversial, like well versed daggers. Hitchens was not alone; the atheist bestsellers club also included Professors Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and the neuroscientist Sam Harris. Dawkins' "The God Delusion" and Harris' "The End of...
Observer, February 4, 2012
...nature that Sheldrake is interested in is polarity, and if he has a natural nemesis then it is Richard Dawkins, arch materialist and former professor of public understanding of science at Oxford. The title of his book seems to take direct aim at...
Observer, February 4, 2012
...opened and closed with less uproar than might have been expected from an event attended by seasoned contrarians Richard Dawkins and David Hare. The GLF's biggest problem is its isolation from Sri Lankan society and its alleged indifference to local...
Sri Lanka Sunday Times, February 4, 2012
...Prof of Anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere on Richard Dawkins Now that the Galle Festival has come and gone and readers and the literary luminaries have gone to their respective homes, some readers might be interested in the comment...
Baptist Standard, February 4, 2012
...to the Nones to discover nearly half said they believed "nothing in particular." Neither raging atheist scientist Richard Dawkins, author of numerous best-sellers such as The God Delusion, nor religious broadcaster Pat Robertson would understand this...
io9, October 14, 2011
...Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, joins us to discuss working with Dave McKean, being friends with Douglas Adams, and whether or not a human can...
The Raw Story, October 13, 2011
...A Michigan country club canceled a speaking engagement for Richard Dawkins, a British biologist and outspoken atheist, after club officials watched his interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. “It’s obviously an outrage that at the last minute...
Why Evolution Is True, October 7, 2011
...the face of O'Reilly's religion-fuelled vitriol.Tellingly, Fox news titles the video, "O'Reilly crushes atheist Richard Dawkins."  Watch the video and see if you think that description bears any resemblance to the truth.Over at her website, Miranda Hale...
Pyramidion, September 30, 2011
...Tags Atheism, Delusion of God, Evolution, indoctrination, Judeo-Christian myth, Richard Dawkins, The magic of reality Richard Dawkins’ New Children’s Book by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat on September 30, 2011 Written by Raven Clabough/ New American   Atheist...
The Political Carnival, September 27, 2011
...Makes me want an iPad. A new iPad app for “ The Magic of Reality ,” Richard Dawkins ‘ new book about fact-backed, science-based, worldly wonders, is out today in the iTunes store . The book in digital and paper form is also now out in the UK, and...
Death and Taxes, September 26, 2011
...Richard Dawkins’ latest book “The Magic of Reality” will be released October 4th on Free Press. Today, however, Dawkins released an iPad App of the same name with illustrations by the...
Fave Read, September 25, 2011
...The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True. This is for children and young adults. Dawkins also said that science and reality can be more poetic and exciting than fables and myths. Personally science and reality is interesting but it can not...