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When religion is seen in terms of " sacred ", " divine ", intensive " valuing ", or " ultimate concern ", then it is possible to understand why scientific findings and philosophical criticisms ( e. g. Richard Dawkins ) do not necessarily disturb its adherents.
In Soderbergh's book Getting Away With It, Lester reveals that he is a committed atheist and debates with Soderbergh ( then an agnostic ), largely based on the arguments of Richard Dawkins.
He was berated by Richard Dawkins ( among others ), who said: " If the museum was to go down that road then perhaps they should bring in the Stork theory of where babies come from.
Johnson recounts that on sabbatical in England he sought, through prayer, inspiration for what he should do with the rest of his life, and then received an epiphany after he read Richard Dawkins ' The Blind Watchmaker and Michael Denton's Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.
In the same month, prominent biologist Richard Dawkins was quoted saying the following about Liberty University ; " If it's really true that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labeled as being 3, 000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace.
With New Jersey, then the Utah Jazz, then the Detroit Pistons, Dawkins kept trying to come back, but his back wouldn ’ t let him.
Further on in Dawkins ' imaginary journey ( imaginary, in that the journey is going backwards in time ), we meet the concestor we share with the gorilla, our next nearest relative, then the orangutan, and so on, until we finally meet the concestor of all living organisms, known as the last universal ancestor.
Dawkins then signed with the Denver Broncos, where he played until his contract expired at the end of the 2011 season.
They gained university status in the late 1980s to the early 1990s as a result of the reforms of the then Minister for Employment, Education and Training, John Dawkins.
Dawkins then goes on to show that a process of cumulative selection can take far fewer steps to reach any given target.
The Dawkins Revolution was a series of Australian tertiary education reforms instituted by the then Labor Education Minister ( 1987 – 92 ) John Dawkins.

Dawkins and describes
Dawkins also describes religious beliefs as " mind-parasites ", and as " gangs < nowiki ></ nowiki > will come to constitute a package, which may be sufficiently stable to deserve a collective name such as Roman Catholicism ... or ... component parts to a single virus ".
At each point Dawkins attempts to infer, from molecular and fossil evidence, the probable form of the most recent common ancestor and describes the modern animals that join humanity's growing travelling party.
This project has not, according to one view, been especially successful ; for example, Richard Dawkins describes how we must rise above our selfish genes to behave morally ( that is, evolution has endowed us with various instincts, but we need some other moral system to decide which ones to empower or control ).
Richard Dawkins also propounds a more visible form of atheist activism which he light-heartedly describes as ' militant atheism '.

Dawkins and experiences
In an appendix to a later edition of the book ( 1996 ), Dawkins explains how his experiences with computer models led him to a greater appreciation of the role of embryological constraints on natural selection.
In the book, Dawkins writes of some of the racism he encountered during his NBA career, playing alongside 76ers superstar Julius Erving, and his off-the-court experiences with drugs, parties and women.

Dawkins and with
Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
Dennett's views on evolution are identified as being strongly adaptationist, in line with his theory of the intentional stance, and the evolutionary views of biologist Richard Dawkins.
This stems from Gould's long-running public debate with E. O. Wilson and other evolutionary biologists over human sociobiology and its descendant evolutionary psychology, which Gould and Richard Lewontin opposed, but which Dennett advocated, together with Dawkins and Steven Pinker.
The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
To emphasize commonality with genes, Dawkins coined the term " meme " by shortening " mimeme ", which derives from the Greek word mimema (" something imitated ").
For Dawkins, the meme exemplified another self-replicating unit with potential significance in explaining human behavior and cultural evolution.
In keeping with the thesis that in evolution one can regard organisms simply as suitable " hosts " for reproducing genes, Dawkins argues that one can view people as " hosts " for replicating memes.
Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from the popularization of Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
Lynch claimed to have conceived his theory totally independently of any contact with academics in the cultural evolutionary sphere, and apparently was not even aware of Dawkins ' The Selfish Gene until his book was very close to publication.
This thinking is more in line with Dawkins ' second definition of the meme in his book The Extended Phenotype.
* The Future of Animal Farming: Renewing the Ancient Contract ( with Marian Stamp Dawkins, and Roland Bonney ) 2008.
In his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins grapples with the question of why pain has to be so very painful.
To argue why that red flag might be insufficient, Dawkins explains that drives must compete with each other within living beings.
" His second argument, which follows from the first, is that once the caricature of " constant speedism " is dismissed, we are left with one logical alternative, which Dawkins terms " variable speedism.
– Discussion with atheists Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker on Edge Foundation.
Consequently, it is difficult to read him with objectivity, as his writings reflect the thought of his time, but as Dawkins observed, his was a strong and logical approach to evidence, whether human or natural.
Archaeological investigations were undertaken from 1859 to 1874 by William Boyd Dawkins, who moved to Somerset to study classics with the vicar of Wookey.
Books by Dawkins and Balch are now prized items amongst those with an interest in cave archaeology.
His huge James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra ( 1758, now Edinburgh ) elevates tourism to the heroic, with the two travellers wearing what look very like togas.
In a simulation experiment Dawkins has his weasel program produce the Hamlet phrase METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL, starting from a randomly typed parent, by " breeding " subsequent generations and always choosing the closest match from progeny that are copies of the parent, with random mutations.
" Its willingness to engage positively with, and avoid taking sides against, religiously minded supporters of evolution has been noted by prominent historian of creationism Ronald L. Numbers and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins.
This term is also used in the scientific literature, with the academic publishers Blackwell Publishing referring to " neo-Darwinism as practised today ", and some figures in the study of evolution like Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, using the term in their writings and lectures.
Today, Dawkins postulates, the replicators are the genes within organisms, with each organism's body serving the purpose of a ' survival machine ' for its genes.
In his book The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins introduced the term " hierarchical reductionism " to describe the view that complex systems can be described with a hierarchy of organizations, each of which is only described in terms of objects one level down in the hierarchy.

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