RICHARD DAWKINS
... information, not the soul. • Our genes are a colony of information that wants to be replicated. • It is easier for this to happen in a multicell organism. ...
... information, not the soul. • Our genes are a colony of information that wants to be replicated. • It is easier for this to happen in a multicell organism. ...
God and Richard Dawkins
... 1. His views of God as a created being, miracles as nothing other than ‘more-or-less improbable natural events’ and faith as unevidenced belief represent a ‘straw’ version of Christianity which the orthodox would not wish to defend. Consequently, arguments based on these assumptions do not actually ...
... 1. His views of God as a created being, miracles as nothing other than ‘more-or-less improbable natural events’ and faith as unevidenced belief represent a ‘straw’ version of Christianity which the orthodox would not wish to defend. Consequently, arguments based on these assumptions do not actually ...
Inference to the best explanation
... What is “new” about the “New Atheism”? The only new thing is the aggressiveness and dogmatism with which it states its case No new arguments; no new evidence; just recycling and hyping-up of older ideas ...
... What is “new” about the “New Atheism”? The only new thing is the aggressiveness and dogmatism with which it states its case No new arguments; no new evidence; just recycling and hyping-up of older ideas ...
Beliefs and Values: Humanism
... Whilst at Oxford, Dawkins assumed the role of Simanyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He took this very seriously, regularly giving keynote lectures at Oxford and around the world. Upon retiring, Dawkins suggested he had plans to 'write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will ...
... Whilst at Oxford, Dawkins assumed the role of Simanyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. He took this very seriously, regularly giving keynote lectures at Oxford and around the world. Upon retiring, Dawkins suggested he had plans to 'write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will ...
Science, Faith, and God: Richard Dawkins vs C. S. Lewis on the
... fiduciary in the sense that they rest upon commitments whose truth they are obliged to assume and which they cannot demonstrate. This is not to be seen as a problem but a reflection of the realities of human thinking. ...
... fiduciary in the sense that they rest upon commitments whose truth they are obliged to assume and which they cannot demonstrate. This is not to be seen as a problem but a reflection of the realities of human thinking. ...
Dawkins, redux
... n 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-yearold Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press). Distilling a body of recent population-genetics research — notably that of W. D. Hamilton — it argued that genes, not organisms, were the targets of n ...
... n 1976, Richard Dawkins, then a 35-yearold Oxford lecturer in animal behaviour, published his first book, The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press). Distilling a body of recent population-genetics research — notably that of W. D. Hamilton — it argued that genes, not organisms, were the targets of n ...
Ctime733_The_God_Delusion
... Such is his dislike of religion that when he dies, one feels his soul should be allowed – as an exception, you understand - to transmigrate into Nero Caesar or Julian the Apostate, so as to really show those horrible Christians how he feels. I mean, writing against Christianity is one thing, but why ...
... Such is his dislike of religion that when he dies, one feels his soul should be allowed – as an exception, you understand - to transmigrate into Nero Caesar or Julian the Apostate, so as to really show those horrible Christians how he feels. I mean, writing against Christianity is one thing, but why ...
Richard Dawkins (1941- ) is a British zoologist and
... fundamental (and hence most explanatory) perspective on all evolution by natural selection is the “gene’s-eye-view,” in which benefits to species, lineages, groups, and even individual organisms are seen to be subsidiary to the primary beneficiaries of all adaptations, the “selfish” genes themselves ...
... fundamental (and hence most explanatory) perspective on all evolution by natural selection is the “gene’s-eye-view,” in which benefits to species, lineages, groups, and even individual organisms are seen to be subsidiary to the primary beneficiaries of all adaptations, the “selfish” genes themselves ...
Plato`s dualism
... LO: I will know why Richard Dawkins rejects the traditional idea of the soul ...
... LO: I will know why Richard Dawkins rejects the traditional idea of the soul ...
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins /ˈdɔːkɨnz/ FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. 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 is a noted atheist, a patron of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement, and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept 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. This concept is presented in his book The Extended Phenotype.He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. 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. Dawkins founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to promote the teaching of evolution and to counteract those who advocate classroom programs against evolution. In 2014 he joined the global awareness movement Asteroid Day as a ""100x Signatory"".