Richard Dawkins

In his book "The God Delusion," leading atheist Richard Dawkins famously argued that belief in a supernatural creator is irrational and that believing in God qualifies as a delusion, or "a persistent false belief held in the face of strong ...  

Mephistopheles comes camouflaged. Which, talking of dissimulation, brings me to Richard Dawkins, a fanatic disguised as a scientist.  And surely, in the powerful counterproductive sway of his noisy arguments, proof of the existence of God?  

Famed atheist biologist Richard Dawkins had a surprising "oops" moment during an interview yesterday, when he forgot the title of Charles Darwin's most famous book.  

In the week following the 2011 UK Census, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science decided to commission their own poll (with their own questions) to find out just how religious people in Britain were. It turns out a … Continue reading →  

If you were trying to come up with a definition of misplaced intellectual arrogance, you could not do better than having the planet's most famous atheist issuing diktats on who does and doesn't count as a proper Christian. Prof Dawkins then announced ...  

In contrast to Baroness Warsi’s open-minded declaration that religion might not have ‘the only answer’ to life, Dawkins peddles the extraordinary view that science does have all life’s answers.  

Judging by twitter Prof Richard Dawkins was his usual emollient and self-deprecating self on Radio 4 this morning promoting the results of a new Ipsos-MORI poll commissioned by his Foundation for Research and Science. I didn’t hear it myself so … Continue reading →  

They are confirmed by many existing studies of the religion or the British ... An important one has to do not so much with believing as with belonging. This can be tribal, or have a class element, though I think this aspect has diminished hugely since ...  

I read the following article (here) about Richard Dawkins' embarrassing arrogance and spluttering with a whimsical smile. Although I do enjoy his books and obviously share many of his views it seems that he is becoming guilty of doing exactly what he c...  

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, will resume his rivalry with ethnologist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, on the question of "the nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin".  

Even though the image has been around for a few months now, a few different people sent it along saying the caption underneath it is simply beautiful. They’re absolutely right: It’s odd, thinking about death while being an atheist. To … Continue reading →  

I wrote last week, in a piece about atheistic piety, that 'just before he died, Christopher Hitchens expressed some generous sympathy for the Christian worldview, much to the evident frustration of his interlocutor Richard Dawkins.' The celebrity atheist ...  

Criticizing ethical systems based on religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam, The God Delusion author continued to uphold the view that ethics came from secular values and not godly ones. "We are the 21st century moralists and atheists," Dawkins ...  

Any spat between Alain de Botton and Richard Dawkins is one where I’m kind of rooting for both of them to lose. On the other hand, Dawkins has some genuine achievements to his name and has written some pretty decent books, so there’s some compensation when he acts like an arse, whereas in de Botton’s [...]  

Christians and other religious people often point to their holy books as a source of moral guidance for the world, but to Richard Dawkins they are not necessary. Speaking at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, the God Delusion author argued that moral ...