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The GOD Delusion

The Ancestor's Tale

The Blind Watchmaker

A Devil's Chaplain

River Out of Eden

Climbing Mount Improbable

Unweaving the Rainbow


Richard Dawkins
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From Wikipedia
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centric view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, thereby helping to found the field of memetics. In 1982, he made a major contribution to the science of evolution with the theory, presented in his widely cited book The Extended Phenotype, that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books on, and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes about, evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion.
Dawkins is an outspoken atheist, humanist, and sceptic, and is a prominent member of the Brights movement. In a play on Thomas Huxley's epithet "Darwin's bulldog", Dawkins' impassioned defence of evolution has earned him the appellation "Darwin's rottweiler". (more)


Speeches/Lectures by Richard Dawkins
Is Science a Religion?

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Richard Dawkins at TEDTalks

Richard DawkinsVideos

The Root of all Evil, Part 1
The Root of all Evil, Part 2


Interviews with
Richard Dawkins

Nick Pollard talks to
Dr. Richard Dawkins


Newsnight Book Club Interview on The God Delusion

 

 

 

I might retort that such hostility as I or other atheists occasionally voice towards religion is limited to words. I am not going to bomb anybody, behead them, stone them, burn them at the stake, crucify them, or fly planes into their skyscrapers, just because of a theological disagreement.
Articles on Richard Dawkins

The Godless Fundamentalist
In The Root of All Evil, biologist Richard Dawkins reveals his own lust for certainty
by Lakshmi Chaudhry

The Atheist
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.
by Gordy Slack


Writings by Richard Dawkins

A Scientist's View

Children must choose their own beliefs

The Word Made Flesh

Religion's Misguided Missiles


Books by Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

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