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Richard Dawkins

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  • 1941 - Present Day

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dawkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Birthday: 1941-03-26

Born At: Nairobi, Kenya Colony

Casted In:

The God Who Wasn't There
13014
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
13359
Root of All Evil?
14297
The Enemies of Reason
24506
Sex, Drugs & Religion
29465
Atheist Alliance International Convention 2007
32760
Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?
45299
The Blind Watchmaker
46107
The God Delusion Debate
56204
The Genius of Charles Darwin
56765
The Future Is Now!
98522
A Universe from Nothing
106696
Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen
145676
The Unbelievers
191502
Speciesism: The Movie
234555
The Reality of Me
251082
Something From Nothing: A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
288226
A War on Science
334617
Brave New World with Stephen Hawking
339540
Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit
430742

Crewed In:

Root of All Evil?
14297
The Enemies of Reason
24506
The Genius of Charles Darwin
56765
Something From Nothing: A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
288226
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