Richard Dawkins

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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.

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  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1941-03-26
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The Enemies of Reason

2007-01-01

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Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007

2008-05-05

6

The God Who Wasn't There

2005-05-21

3.8

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

2008-04-18

6.8

Sex, Drugs & Religion

2010-01-01

7.3

Root of All Evil?

2006-01-09

4.5

Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?

2009-01-01

5.5

The Blind Watchmaker

1987-01-19

7.2

The Genius of Charles Darwin

2008-08-04

2.8

A Universe from Nothing

2009-10-03

8.7

Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen

2008-01-10

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Science Friction

2022-04-10

6.4

The Unbelievers

2013-12-13

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The Trouble with Atheism

2006-12-18

7.2

The Reality of Me

2012-11-01

7.3

Speciesism: The Movie

2013-09-18

5.5

The God Delusion Debate

2007-10-03

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Something From Nothing: A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

2012-04-12

6.7

Breath of Life

2015-04-01

9

A War on Science

2006-01-26

4.4

The Fool

2018-08-24

1.6

The Atheist Delusion

2016-09-30

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The Future Is Now!

2011-06-24

6.5

Beware the Slenderman

2016-03-11

9.1

Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit

2016-12-16

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Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

2010-12-24

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Losing Our Religion

2017-10-06

6.3

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017-09-13

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Supersapiens: the Rise of the Mind

2017-06-03

5.4

Intersect

2020-02-12

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The Mind's Big Bang

2001-09-27

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Faith School Menace?

2010-08-18

7.2

Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus

2015-01-19

6.7

The Big Questions

2007-09-09

3.1

Richard & Judy

2001-11-26

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La entrevista de

2019-01-19

6.9

The Colbert Report

2005-10-17

9

The Root of All Evil?

2006-01-08

7.5

The Genius of Charles Darwin

2008-08-04

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Break the Science Barrier

1996-10-30

9.5

Inside Nature's Giants

2009-06-29

7.5

Doctor Who

2005-03-26

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Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief

2004-10-11

8.3

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

2011-05-23

5.2

Great Minds

2021-08-30

6.9

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

2015-04-20

8.1

The Simpsons

1989-12-17

9.3

Brave New World with Stephen Hawking

2011-10-17

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Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words

2011-08-11

7

Genius of Britain

2010-05-30

3.8

Q&A

2008-05-22

6

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003-02-21

6.4

The Daily Show

1996-07-22

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