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In 2006, Dawkins founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS), a non-profit organisation. RDFRS financed research on the psychology of belief and religion, financed scientific education programs and materials, and publicised and supported charitable organisations that are secular in nature. [84]
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.
Before the mid-2000s, Dawkins usually voted for Labour Party candidates. [2] The party has often been described as social democratic. [3] [4]In 2009 Dawkins participated in a New Statesman project called "20 ways to save Labour", in which 20 public figures, including Dawkins as well as Germaine Greer and John Pilger, among others gave suggestions about how to make the Labour Party better.
Christian belief has given rise to a certain kind of culture that even a well-known atheist such as Richard Dawkins finds congenial. Christian belief has given rise to a certain kind of culture ...
In 2006, after his documentary The Root of All Evil?, Richard Dawkins published his book The God Delusion.. The Root of All Evil?, later retitled The God Delusion, is a television documentary written and presented by Richard Dawkins in which he argues that humanity would be better off without religion or belief in God.
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".