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Professor Richard Dawkins: Yes, I could. Fraser: Go on then. Dawkins: On the Origin of Species... uh... with... Oh God. Er... On the Origin of Species. Um. Theres ... theres a sub-title...er, um... with respect to the preser... preservation of favoured...
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Christianity and driving them back to the margins". Well, not really. One could argue that steadily declining congregations and a crisis in vocations are already performing that task perfectly adequately. But how then to explain the fury of atheist...
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A member of the audience listens to a speaker at the annual Literature Festival in Jaipur, capital of India's desert state of Rajasthan January 24, 2012. The five-day festival, which concludes on Tuesday, has attracted over 70,000 visitors and featured... View Photo »
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Jesus and Mo cartoons are wonderfully funny and true. They could offend only those actively seeking to be offended – which says it all.
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No. Not those facts. The birds and bees aren't as complicated as questions like "Why do bad things happen?" Richard Dawkins' new book, "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True," out late last year from Free Press, is a wonderful book for...
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Over at Richard Dawkins’s site, he reports a conversation with Adam Lusher, a reporter from the Telegraph who, writing a story on Richard, insinuated that he not only condoned slavery, but carried genes for slaveholding, and perhaps is still...
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If you have the cast of mind of Richard Dawkins, that's it, end of subject. Jesus didn't come here, and it is pernicious to have silly fantasies about it. Anyway, you say, Jesus is not the Son - or, as Blake's next lines state, the Lamb - of God. It's...
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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... View Photo »
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For some people they were just words and images ... For Mr. Lasn, they were tools to begin remodeling the ‘mental environment,’ to create a new ‘meme,’ the term coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins for a kind of transcendent cultural message.
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Christopher Hitchens, there was a similar counter push to present this new wave of assertiveness as sinister and extreme. I got particularly annoyed by a “balanced” (in the worst sense of the word) article by Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian which leant...
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(The government said on Friday it was effectively reversing the ban.) Even some secularists have expressed sympathy with believers as they confront the activism of proselytizing atheists such as Richard Dawkins , the British evolutionary biologist,...
About Richard Dawkins
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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
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