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Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author. [4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008.
The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
The title of the programme comes from Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene in which Dawkins introduced the idea of the meme. DNA travels from parents to offspring in genes, but some DNA in the form of viruses can also pass between any individuals. Dawkins compares religious faith to a virus, being passed from parents to offspring and teachers to ...
Richard Dawkins in 2006. Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. Dawkins himself has stated that his political views are left-leaning. [1] However, many of Dawkins's political statements have created controversy among left-wing and atheist communities.
Dawkins lists possible "symptoms" of infection with a "mind-virus" [1] such as religion, providing examples for most of them, and tries to define a connection between the elements of religion and the religion's survival value (invoking Zahavi's handicap principle of sexual selection, applied to believers of a religion). [2] Dawkins also ...
Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments written by blogger Adam Lee, [9] [10] cited by Dawkins in his book The God Delusion: [11] Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you. In all things, strive to cause no harm.
Richard Dawkins at the 35th American Atheists Convention. In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins posits that "the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis like any other." He goes on to propose a continuous "spectrum of probabilities" between two extremes of opposite certainty, which can be represented by seven "milestones".
Richard Dawkins published The God Delusion, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for 51 weeks. [19] On 30 September 2007, Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, and Dennett met at Hitchens' residence in Washington, D.C., for a private two-hour unmoderated round table discussion. The event was videotaped and titled "The Four Horsemen". [20]