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Study Breaks
January 25, 2018
The word was originally coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976, which, hilariously enough, means a rather seriously researched topic has been appropriated by the internet and now being called dank memes. Pretty much anyone who does anything on social media has an idea about what a meme is becauseÃÂ ...
Scot Scoop News
January 25, 2018
We all know them: the funny pictures with the big white text or everyone's favorite frog sipping tea after making a snarky remark. However, memes are more than just funny pictures with words. The term “meme” was first used by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene,”à...
Patheos (blog)
January 25, 2018
The Atlantic has a powerful story about Lubna Yaseen, an Iraqi woman who faced death threats for expressing her atheist beliefs in her native Iraq (she was literally threatened by Al Qaeda militants for not wearing a hijab). But Secular Rescue, a project of the Center for Inquiry, got her out of Iraq to safety.
Scroll.in
January 24, 2018
In our time, the biologist Richard Dawkins and philosopher Daniel Dennett have led a neo-Darwinist attack on religion as a misguided and dangerous delusion. Along with Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens, Dawkins and Dennett were labelled leaders of the New Atheists, having renewed a warÃÂ ...
Christianheadlines.com (blog)
January 23, 2018
Scientist Richard Dawkins, the combative author of “The God Delusion,” has said, “Faith can be very, very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.” I wonder why the good doctor doesn't just go ahead and tell us how he really feels?
Patheos (blog)
January 20, 2018
Atheists can even learn how we might be blindly (religiously?) following Richard Dawkins and not know it, or that we really shouldn't consider theists “stupid” or see religion as a “mental illness.” If these things puzzle or irritate you, blame Matthew Facciani, not me. Facciani is also the one who can sort youÃÂ ...
Japan Today
January 20, 2018
This has given rise to what is being called in the UK the“no-platform” movement – attempts to ban from university campuses speakers whom one or other group considers harmful to an audience. In July last year, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, whose “The God Delusion” is an extended critiqueÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 18, 2018
The initiative, launched in 2016, is run by the Center For Inquiry, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that aims to promote secular values, such as scientific rationality and freedom of speech, with the support of Richard Dawkins and other prominent atheists. “It's really an underground railroad of sorts forÃÂ ...
Big Think
January 14, 2018
Evolutionary biologist and former Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University Richard Dawkins has a bone to pick with the U.S. judicial system. Specifically, the phrase "beyond reasonable doubt". He argues that it doesn't mean what it says it means — that two different juries wouldÃÂ ...
Las Cruces Sun-News
January 7, 2018
"We believe that scientific discovery and technology can contribute to the betterment of human life." — Paul Kurtz. In an exchange with a friend, I was asked who I thought should be TIME Magazine's Person of the Year. It was most impressive that this friend correctly predicted the eventual winner(s): "TheÃÂ ...
The Federalist
January 3, 2018
Sam Harris, a popular author and one of the “Four Horsemen of Atheism,” made this argument in a debate with Christian philosopher William Lane Craig. The so-called Four Horsemen, which also includes Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett, are not the first to make this argument,ÃÂ ...
Patheos (blog)
December 29, 2017
Many who are familiar with the socio-political workings of Finland point to the Lutheran Evangelical Church's refusal to marry same-sex couples as the rallying point to pass The Richard Dawkins Act. Same-sex marriage just became legal in Finland, making it the last Scandinavian country to recognize thatÃÂ ...
Irish Times
December 29, 2017
A young man came up afterwards and asked me to sign a copy of my textbook Christian Theology: An Introduction. I asked him what had led him to study theology. He told me that he'd read Richard Dawkins' God Delusion a year or so earlier and it seemed so unfair and one-sided that he felt he needed toÃÂ ...
DutchNews.nl
December 26, 2017
Science and faith are not on the opposite side of the fence and Christians are responsible for many scientific breakthroughs, says Rob Mutsaerts, the auxiliary bishop of the diocese of 's Hertogenbosch. Richard Dawkins, advocate of scientific and rational thought, is calling on everyone, and people of faithÃÂ ...
ChristianityToday.com
December 18, 2017
They asked everyday people about how they viewed elite scientific thinkers, whether as the Richard Dawkins, God-is-a-delusion stereotype or as fellow believers who bring their faith into their fields. Their new book out this month, Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think, synthesizes theÃÂ ...
Hartford Courant
October 25, 2017
Scientist, atheist and author Richard Dawkins is no stranger to controversy In this 2009 file photo, he stands next to a London bus featuring the advertisement with the slogan “There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The campaign, supported by Dawkins and the British HumanistÃÂ ...
Scientific American
August 10, 2017
Richard Dawkins, the biologist and author, is complicated. I reached this conclusion in 2005 when I participated in a fellowship for journalists organized by the pro-religion Templeton Foundation. Ten of us spent several weeks at the University of Cambridge listening to 18 scientists and philosophers pointÃÂ ...
HuffPost
August 2, 2017
Trash-talking celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins was back in the news recently when Berkeley public radio station KPFA cancelled a sponsored interview with him. The station pulled out of the event because of what it called Dawkins' history of “hurtful” and “abusive” tweets and comments about Islam.
The Guardian
July 24, 2017
Richard Dawkins has denied using “abusive speech against Islam” after a California radio station cancelled a book event with the scientist, citing his comments on Islam, which it said had “offended and hurt … so many people”. Dawkins, whose bestselling study of evolution, The Selfish Gene, was namedÃÂ ...
NPR
December 4, 2017
Richard Dawkins, the well-known evolutionary biologist and science popularizer, is a forceful advocate for this approach, arguing that the victor is — and should be — science. In the same 2006 debate with Collins, Dawkins speculated that "Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win ...
New York Times
December 1, 2017
If the world was coming to an end and we were to send one last message out into the cosmos that summed up the beauty of life on Earth, what would it be? Jane Goodall, Mohsin Hamid, Oscar Murillo, James Dyson, Richard Dawkins, Kyung-sook Shin and Daniel Humm tell us. Tell us how you would sum ...
Free Malaysia Today
November 27, 2017
Dawkins, who is a biologist and the author of “The God Delusion”, took to Twitter over the weekend to criticise the claim that atheism contravenes Malaysia's Federal Constitution. “Words fail me. How do you deal with such prodigies of stupidity and injustice?” he said. Dawkins, who argues against the idea ...
Malay Mail Online
November 25, 2017
AFP picKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 ― A deputy minister's claim that atheism was illegal in Malaysia has invited mockery from one of the world's most famous atheists: British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Dawkins was commenting on a report of Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department ...
The Canary
November 20, 2017
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has schooled the government for essentially voting that animals can't feel pain or emotion. The government recently won a vote not to include 'animal sentience' – the notion that animals feel pain and emotion – within the EU Withdrawal Bill. The bill moves existing ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
November 17, 2017
The gatherings are regarded as a place where the likes of former Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates, scientist Richard Dawkins, and former ...
Christian Post
November 8, 2017
A major atheist convention that was to feature prominent non-theists like Richard Dawkins and Sir Salman Rushdie has been canceled due to ...
Salon
November 4, 2017
MASSIVE_logo A little more than 40 years ago, Richard Dawkins wrote his landmark book, The Selfish Gene, and changed our view of ...
Cosmos
October 29, 2017
Is the democratic system the real problem that needs to be tackled if we want our species to survive? Richard Dawkins chats with Andrew ...
NEWS.com.au
October 26, 2017
RICHARD Dawkins has authored numerous other influential works including the so-called new atheist handbook, but it isn't all accolades.
WNPR News
October 25, 2017
Richard Dawkins is probably the best-known ethologist and evolutionary biologist in the world. And he's maybe the best-known atheist and ...
Hartford Courant
October 25, 2017
Renowned British evolutionary scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins is at The Bushnell in Hartford Nov. 4 for an onstage discussion with ...
Massive
October 24, 2017
A little more than 40 years ago, Richard Dawkins wrote his landmark book, The Selfish Gene, and changed our view of evolution forever.
Volkskrant
October 23, 2017
LezersbrievenRichard Dawkins stelt dat geloven voor laffe en luie mensen is. 'God is een misverstand'. Dat leidt tot stevige discussies tussen ...
Volkskrant
October 23, 2017
LezersbrievenRichard Dawkins stelt dat het geloven voor laffe en luie mensen is. 'God is een misverstand'. Lezers zijn het niet met hem eens:Â ...
Big Think
October 17, 2017
What is the Darwinian survival value of religion? That's not the right question, says Richard Dawkins. To find the right question, he relies on an ...
Buffalo News
October 13, 2017
As the thoughts and work of actual scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Jeremy England are folded into the work, we ...
Philly.com
October 13, 2017
Origin rekindles the debate spearheaded by the 2006 book The God Delusion by the Oxford biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins.
Coast Weekend
October 13, 2017
In his writings and interviews, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has talked about why we help people we are unlikely to meet again, ...
San Francisco Examiner
October 13, 2017
In lecture rooms, music-world stars Patti Smith and Elvis Costello and biologist Richard Dawkins speak. Another talk deals with Islam and ...
Quanta Magazine
September 29, 2017
... to rediscover a foundational principle of population genetics and to examine the validity of Richard Dawkins's famous metaphor of the “selfish ...
Big Think
September 23, 2017
Richard Dawkins has made a career out of hypothesizing and articulating ideas that move the world forward, insomuch as many of those ideas ...
The Guardian
September 15, 2017
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, agrees. He announced a few years ago that most fairytales do not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
New York Times
July 24, 2017
Richard Dawkins in December 2014. A public radio station in Berkeley, Calif., canceled Mr. Dawkins's appearance because of his past ...
Asian Correspondent
December 31, 1999
British biologist, writer and well-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, added his two cents to the atheism debate underway in Malaysia, saying a deputy minister's views could “lead to real injustice.” Dawkins took to Twitter to question how you deal with “such prodigies of stupidity and injustice” after Deputy ...
Gospel Herald
December 31, 1999
In August, Richard Dawkins was lined up to speak about his memoir A Brief Candle in the Dark at an event hosted by Berkeley's KPFA Radio. However, the event was canceled over his "abusive speech" against Islam. Reuters. Atheist author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins slammed Islam as an ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
December 31, 1999
Today, we're following up with a fascinating video of the famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, ...
New Zealand Herald
December 31, 1999
Two of the planet's best-known thinkers - evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins and theoretical physicist and cosmologist ...
ScoopWhoop
December 31, 1999
And this video between renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan is just that. As an educator, Dawkins ...
Big Think
September 23, 2017
Richard Dawkins has made a career out of hypothesizing and articulating ideas that move the world forward, insomuch as many of those ideasÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 15, 2017
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, agrees. He announced a few years ago that most fairytales do not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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