1941-03-26 ( 84 years old ) in Nairobi, Kenya Colony
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.
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Intersect
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The Fool
2018-08-24
Losing Our Religion
2017-10-06
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017-09-13
Supersapiens: the Rise of the Mind
2017-06-03
Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit
2016-12-16
The Atheist Delusion
2016-09-30
Beware the Slenderman
2016-03-11
Breath of Life
2015-04-01
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus
2015-01-19
The Unbelievers
2013-12-13
Speciesism: The Movie
2013-09-18
The Reality of Me
2012-11-01
The Future Is Now!
2011-06-24
Faith School Menace?
2010-08-18
Sex, Drugs & Religion
2010-01-01
A Universe from Nothing
2009-10-03
Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?
2009-01-01
The Genius of Charles Darwin
2008-08-04
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
2008-04-18
The God Delusion Debate
2007-10-03
The Enemies of Reason
2007-01-01
The Trouble with Atheism
2006-12-18
A War on Science
2006-01-26
Root of All Evil?
2006-01-09
The God Who Wasn't There
2005-05-21
The Mind's Big Bang
2001-09-27
The Blind Watchmaker
1987-01-19
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