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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.
In 2006, following his television documentary series The Root of All Evil? 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 ...
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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]
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.
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 .
(1968 TV series), British anthology TV series; The Root of All Evil?, a 2006 UK television documentary, retitled The God Delusion discussing religious faith and starring Richard Dawkins; Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, a television series aired on Comedy Central featuring comedian Lewis Black