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  1. The Descent of Edward Wilson - Richard Dawkins - Prospect
    RichardDawkins.net logo RichardDawkins.net 2 hours ago
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    Genes, but no other units in life’s hierarchy, make exact copies of themselves in a pool of such copies. It therefore makes a long-term difference which genes are good at surviving and which ones bad. You cannot say the same of individual organisms... Full Article at RichardDawkins.net

  2. The beauty of creation: an interview with Richard Dawkins - Heather Catchpole - COSMOS Magazine
    RichardDawkins.net logo RichardDawkins.net 4 hours ago

    HEATHER CATCHPOLE - COSMOS MAGAZINE Added: Thu, 24 May 2012 12:53:36 UTC Thanks to Quine for the link. Heather Catchpole: We very much enjoyed both of your performances in the last couple of days… Richard Dawkins: Good. HC: I wanted to start with The... Full Article at RichardDawkins.net

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago
    CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO DAWKINS INSTEAD OF DAWKINGS - Andrea Garber,15, asks best-selling atheist author Richard Dawkins, left, to sign a poster she made at the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first...

    CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO DAWKINS INSTEAD OF DAWKINGS - Andrea Garber,15, asks best-selling atheist author Richard Dawkins, left, to sign a poster she made at the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first... View Photo »

  4. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 3 weeks ago
  5. Full Length Talk - 'How To Tell You're An Atheist' - Dan Dennett - YouTube - TheClergyProject
    RichardDawkins.net logo RichardDawkins.net 16 hours ago

    Moral Clarity and Richard Dawkins Carson - Reasons for God What kind of meta-ethical foundation has Dawkins provided for his ‘moral home’? Mencken week: Day 2 Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution Is True The Moral Necessity of a Godless... Tauriq Moosa - big... Full Article at RichardDawkins.net

  6. The panel beaters
    The Age logo The Age 1 day ago

    In a recent episode featuring Archbishop of Sydney George Pell and atheist Richard Dawkins, for example, Dawkins took aim at audience members who he believed were smirking at him. Anyone who registers to be in the audience must answer questions about... Full Article at The Age

  7. NOM's Brian Brown Said I Could Name the Time and the Place
    The Portland Mercury logo The Portland Mercury 1 day ago

    Gonna have a rational debate with an irrational thinker, eh? Your stock is about to drop faster than facebook. Learn from Richard Dawkins, Dan. Don't do it. Get the best of the Mercury each week in your inbox! The Handyman Pro - Your Honey-Do Specialist... Full Article at The Portland Mercury

  8. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago
    Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don't believe in God, with a gathering sort...

    Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don't believe in God, with a gathering sort... View Photo »

  9. Richard Dawkins, highlighting research that suggested declining religious literacy even among professed believers, memorably fluffed a challenge from Dr Giles Fraser to recall the full title of The Origin of Species.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 3 weeks ago
  10. Richard Dawkins - Reason Rally 2012
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 2 months ago
  11. TedxMogadishu and its spiritual predecessor, Elman the Electrician
    Free African Media 2 days ago
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    There have been TEDx events in Hanoi, Baghdad, and now Somalia. No wonder the TED folk want to maintain a little distance - TED usually boasts speakers like Richard Dawkins and Al Gore on “ideas worth spreading”. No such high-profile luminary was going... Full Article at Free African Media

  12. CP World Report: Afghanistan, Lockerbie bomber, Richard Dawkins, Bee Gees
    The Christian Post logo The Christian Post 2 days ago

    We brought you a story last week about the Department of Education distributing King James bibles to every school in England in Honor of its 400th anniversary. Well, world -renowned atheist Richard Dawkins says he supports the mission. The author and... Full Article at The Christian Post

  13. How To Use Memes to Promote Your Business
    Techipedia logo Techipedia 2 days ago

    A meme, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, is “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.” Originally coined by evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins in the 1970s, a meme is something... Full Article at Techipedia

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  2. Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don't believe in God, with a gathering sort of like a county fair Saturday...
  3. Professor Richard Dawkins signs his book "The Blind Watch Maker" for Capt. Geoff Scott before the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don't believe...
  4. Professor Richard Dawkins, left, and Sean Faircloth, Director of Strategy & Policy, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, speak to the media before the Rock Beyond Belief event, Saturday, March 31, 2012 at Fort Bragg, N.C. For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted...
  5. WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24, 2012: Headliner Richard Dawkins, founder of The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, speaks during the National Atheist Organization's 'Reason Rally' March 24, 2012 on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
  6. Visitors attend a discussion by British playwright Tom Stoppard at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 24, 2012. The festival ended after talks from more than 250 speakers including US chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey, biologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins, and...
  7. British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins speaks during Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 24, 2012. The festival ended after talks from more than 250 speakers including US chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey, biologist and atheist author Richard...
  8. Columbia University professor and author James Shapiro (L) speaks with William Dalrymple during a conversation at Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur on January 24, 2012. The festival ended after talks from more than 250 speakers including US chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey,...
  9. A cobbler wearing a mask of controversial British author Salman Rushdie polishes shoes outside a mosque during a protest by an Islamic organisation in Mumbai on January 11, 2011. Rushdie has dismissed demands by an influential Islamic seminary in India that he should be banned from...

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Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He is a professorial fellow of New College, Oxford. Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review 3 weeks ago
  2. Richard Dawkins, highlighting research that suggested declining religious literacy even among professed believers, memorably fluffed a challenge from Dr Giles Fraser to recall the full title of The Origin of Species.
    SOURCE: New Statesman 3 weeks ago
  3. Even the last remaining trump card of the theologian, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?,’ shrivels up before your eyes as you read these pages.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: Rough Type: Nicolas Carr Blog 1 month ago
  4. It's not the case that the Pope walked into the lab and Richard Dawkins walked out ... I think this study tells us one factor that is implicated in whether or not people are believers, but it is just one factor out of many.
    SOURCE: Discovery News 3 weeks ago
  5. This country does have a very deeply built-in and deeply-felt separation between Church and State. So I think it's particularly important that this message that we're delivering today should be delivered to the American forces.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Huffington Post 1 month ago
  6. but while most religions have developed more tolerance in recent years, atheists seem to fly into a fanatical rage at the merest hint of contradiction; for instance, the suggestion that God might exist. In the age of rationalists such as Richard Dawkins and AC Grayling, atheists have become the new Jesu...
    SOURCE: The Independent 2 months ago
  7. I'm not really much fussed
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Age 1 month ago
  8. Professor Richard Dawkins confronts the epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking with logic, observation and evidence - in other words, through reason.
    SOURCE: Sandwalk 2 months ago
  9. The question why is not necessarily a question that deserves to be answered
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Age 1 month ago
  10. While New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others proclaim loudly their rationality, clear thinking, and incontrovertible scientific arguments, others are beginning to wonder how genuinely rational they are. Have they proved anything? Have they argued convincingly? Have they pinpointed any...
    SOURCE: M & M 2 months ago
  11. You can’t say why do mountains exist
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Age 1 month ago
  12. Is Richard Dawkins an ape?
    SOURCE: Why Evolution Is True 2 months ago
  13. Do you really believe, for example if they're Catholic, that when a priest blesses a wafer, it turns into the body of Christ?
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Christian Post 2 months ago
  14. As previously noted, 'Rock Beyond Belief' invited Michael Weinstein and Richard Dawkins to speak, two men who make their livings being 'critical of other religions.' Invited musical guests also have a history of similar criticism. Does anyone really expect they could fill a stage for 8 hours with people...
    SOURCE: The Huffington Post 2 months ago
  15. Science makes us see what we couldn't see before. Religion does its best to snuff out even that light which we can see
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: The Christian Post 2 months ago
  16. Richard Dawkins is horrible and militant
    SOURCE: Why Evolution Is True 2 months ago
  17. We are far more numerous than anybody realizes
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: France 24 2 months ago
  18. What’s changed recently is the animus and the ignorance that has entered into the atheist argument, led by Richard Dawkins, most improbably a fine zoologist, a good scholar, Oxford trained, who seems to have thrown everything off in this odd pursuit, particularly of Christianity.
    SOURCE: RichardDawkins.net 2 months ago
  19. You have been neglecting them, overlooking them and riding roughshod over them as though they didn’t exist. Well, they do exist and they outnumber some of the other lobbies that you have been so assiduously sucking up to all these years.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: CNN 2 months ago
  20. Atheism has really been put on the map by what I call New Atheists, like Richard Dawkins and Chris Hitchens. They've been very successful, but at the same time, they've gone a little far with a negative direction. They've identified atheism with a hatred of religion – not just non-belief, but mockery an...
    – Alain de Botton SOURCE: CTV 2 months ago
  21. The nonbelieving constituency has not been vocal enough, and it therefore has been politic for them to be ignored by their congressmen, by their senators
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: CNN 2 months ago
  22. Richard Dawkins: An Atheist’s Call to Arms
    SOURCE: The Blaze 2 months ago
  23. There is in this country at the moment a great revival of atheism, and the number of atheists in the country is much larger than people realize.
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: CNN 2 months ago
  24. Grammar is a science like physics, though Richard Dawkins denies it
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 2 months ago
  25. The Reason Rally is part of an effort to combat the attack of the theocrats
    – Richard Dawkins SOURCE: CNN 2 months ago

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