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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 was born on 26 March 1941. Richard is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins has written several books such as The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, In 2006 Dawkins also founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Dawkins is an atheist and is well known for his criticism of creationism.
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.
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The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell", including mediumship, acupuncture and psychokinesis.
Dawkins, the author of The God Delusion, [22] and director of a Channel 4 television documentary titled The Root of All Evil?, is the founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He wrote: "I don't object to the horseman label, by the way. I'm less keen on 'new atheist': it isn't clear to me how we differ from old atheists ...
Seth Andrews (born 1968): American author and host of The Thinking Atheist radio podcast. [13] Aziz Ansari (born 1983): American actor and comedian. [14] [15] [16] Fred Armisen (born 1966): American actor, comedian. [17] Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007): Italian modernist film director, screenwriter, editor and short story writer. [18]
Viruses of the Mind" is an essay by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, first published in the book Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (1993). Dawkins originally wrote the essay in 1991 and delivered it as a Voltaire Lecture on 6 November 1992 at the Conway Hall Humanist Centre .