A community portal about Richard Dawkins with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Clinton Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair...
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A community portal about Richard Dawkins with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Clinton Richard Dawkins 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.
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (1499) Buy new: $9.32 108 used & new from $7.39 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Most Wished For in Christianity list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description In his sensational international bestseller, the preeminent scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins delivers a hard-hitting, impassioned, but humorous rebuttal of religious belief. With rigor and wit, Dawkins eviscerates the arguments for... Read Full Story
Earlier today we reported that atheist scientist and EVIL-loutionist PZ Myers may well be seeing the light. But now it has come to our attention that one of the infamous "4 Horsemen" of atheism, one Professor Richard Dawkins, has some to an important realization : Washington, DC-- British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author, Richard Dawkins, confessed in a series of interrogations early last year that the Earth is only six thousand years old and the teaching of... Read Full Story
HT: Martin
I’m reminded of 1 Corinthians 1:19:
It’s written,
I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head,
I’ll expose so-called experts as crackpots. ( The Message )
That God would do a number on him, and somehow, he’ll begin to follow the lead of Antony Flew—an ex-atheist.
Posted in Atheism, Christmas, Prayer Tagged: Antony Flew, Richard Dawkins Read Full Story
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Reviews Other products by Free Press Ratting 4.5 Out of 5.0 Special Offer Total New 34 Total Use 6 Read More The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Reviews From Here Now In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form... Read Full Story
On November 24, 1859, exactly 150 years ago, the world was treated with the popularization of the theory of evolution through the first edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of the Species.”
Well, on this the 150th year anniversary call him the comeback kid: we have the likes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitckens, militant neo-atheists—who would like nothing more than to rid humanity of any semblance of belief in God.
In fact, in an interview with CNN , Dawkins, professor at Oxford... Read Full Story
I just want to point out a fascinating video , courtesy of the official Richard Dawkins YouTube channel .
Andy Thomson presents the speech Why We Believe in Gods at the 2009 American Atheists convention in Atlanta, Georgia. In his speech, he provides us with the emerging scientific research regarding religion as a by-product of mankind’s psychological evolution. He clearly sets out many different cognitive processes that our species developed for social reasons and thus shows how they... Read Full Story
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, author and outspoken atheist. He has established himself as a biological guru with the publication of books detailing and expanding upon Darwinian theory. Wired Magazine says this "Revolutionary Evolutionist" is the first true ethologist of the gene. Richard Dawkins has been concerned to convince the literate public that they must now take evolutionary theory seriously as the context within which to think about ourselves and the world and he... Read Full Story
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) To some people the idea of Richard Dawkins writing a book about the religious ideology and the very nature of God, may be on par with, if Enoch Powell had written a book on multi-cultural integration or Tipper Gore of artistic freedom of speech. As Britain’s highest profile Atheist, as well as being a staunch evolutionist (for which he has... Read Full Story
Dawkins blames religion for most of the evil and violence perpetrated in human history *Dawkins is certainly correct that religion has been to blame for much violence and evil that has been perpetrated. Christians have no stake in denying this. Yet, his critique of religion in reference to violence lacks rigor. *Dawkins assumes that most of the violence in history can simply be chalked up to religious zealotry, but he fails to understand that human beings develop what anthropologists call... Read Full Story
