" In his book The God Delusion, the biologist Richard Dawkins sharply criticized Dyson for accepting the Templeton Prize in 2000.

* Richard Dawkins ' The God Delusion and Atheist Fundamentalism by Simon Watson, published in Anthropoetics XV, 2 Spring 2010

Richard Dawkins cited Jaynes ' ideas in his book The God Delusion, stating " It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between ...".

In 2006, Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins ' The God Delusion described pantheism as " sexed-up atheism.

Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of theology, creation and intelligent design in his book The God Delusion in which he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin ; but an intelligent designer must itself be far more complex and difficult to explain than anything it is capable of designing.

* Several pages are devoted to cargo cults in Richard Dawkins ' book The God Delusion.

*" The Dawkins Confusion ", Plantinga's review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion from Books and Culture magazine

In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins states that he agrees with Robert Hinde's Why Good is Good, Michael Shermer's The Science of Good and Evil, Robert Buckman's Can We Be Good Without God?

Richard Dawkins points to religion as a source of violence ( notably in his book, The God Delusion ), and considers creationism a threat to biology.

Richard Dawkins alluded to unicorns in this connection in his 2006 book The God Delusion, writing that " Russell's teapot, of course, stands for an infinite number of things whose existence is conceivable and cannot be disproved.

In 1992, at his 40th birthday party, Adams introduced her to his friend Richard Dawkins ( biologist and author of such books as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and, later, The God Delusion ).

* In " The God Delusion ", Richard Dawkins states that pantheism is " sexed up atheism " while " deism is watered-down theism ".

In this vein, Richard Dawkins dedicates a chapter of his book, The God Delusion to criticism of the God-of-the-gaps fallacy.

The prize has been criticized: British biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins said in his book The God Delusion that the prize was given " usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion ".

Unweaving the Rainbow ( subtitled " Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder ") is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between science and the arts from the perspective of a scientist.

In his book The God Delusion, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins cites Mills ' writings as " admirable work.

Richard Dawkins referenced Letting Go of God several times in his book The God Delusion.

"-Richard Dawkins, " The God Delusion " preface, 2006.

In his book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins ( an evolutionary biologist ) repeatedly criticizes the Templeton Foundation, referring to the Templeton Prize as " a very large sum of money given ... usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion.

Among his best-known books are The Twilight of Atheism, The Dawkins Delusion, Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, and A Scientific Theology.

His book: The Dawkins Delusion?

* The Dawkins Delusion?

They are notable for their use of hyperbole, for example, the short clips seen of a Hell House rehearsal in the Documentary The Root of All Evil ?, presented by Richard Dawkins.

Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist and atheist, expressed scepticism about the healing ability of Lourdes in his documentary The Root of All Evil ?, noting the lack of statistical evidence that there have been any miraculous healings.

* The Root of All Evil ?, a 2006 UK television documentary discussing religious faith and starring Richard Dawkins

Alister McGrath, a Christian theologian, has also commented critically on Dawkins ' analysis, suggesting that " memes have no place in serious scientific reflection ", that there is strong evidence that such ideas are not spread by random processes, but by deliberate intentional actions, that " evolution " of ideas is more Lamarckian than Darwinian, and that there is no evidence ( and certainly none in the article ) that epidemiological models usefully explain the spread of religious ideas.

He has been highly critical of Richard Dawkins, calling him " embarrassingly ignorant of Christian theology ".

* Dawkins ' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, book by Alister McGrath

* Richard Dawkins Interviews Alister McGrath Video

" Adams would later introduce Dawkins to the woman who was to become his third wife, the actress Lalla Ward, best known for playing the character Romana in Doctor Who.

Cranbrook has many notable alumni, including designer Florence Knoll, Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, former U. S. Senator Alan K. Simpson, Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins, former Massachusetts governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney ( née Davies ), columnist Michael Kinsley, Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, former professional soccer player Alexi Lalas, and actress Selma Blair.

The actress Lalla Ward (' The Honourable Sarah Ward ') is the daughter of the seventh Viscount and the wife of Professor Richard Dawkins.

It also includes illustrations by Lalla Ward, Dawkins ' wife.

Dawkins offers several examples of petwhacs in the book, two of which are the bedside clock of a woman ( Richard Feynman's wife ) stopping exactly when she died, and a psychic who stops the watches of his television audience.

Paperback versions and an abridged audio version ( narrated by Dawkins and his wife Lalla Ward ) have also been published.

It is illustrated by Dawkins ' wife Lalla Ward ; and is dedicated to Robert Winston, " a good doctor and a good man ".

Dawkins was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida and first saw his future wife in junior high school.

In early 2007, Dawkins and his wife had twin daughters, Chonni and Cionni.

Dawkins, with his wife, Connie, also have two other children, Brian Jr. and Brionni.

Dawkins died from heart disease on 2 December 1905, he was survived by his wife Louise, daughter of Charles Johnston, and his daughter Dorothy.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

Richard Dawkins in his book River Out of Eden used the computer bootstrapping concept to explain how biological cells differentiate: " Different cells receive different combinations of chemicals, which switch on different combinations of genes, and some genes work to switch other genes on or off.

Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.

According to Richard Dawkins in his book The Ancestor's Tale, chimps and bonobos may be descended from Australopithecus.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

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.

Mayr rejected the idea of a gene-centered view of evolution and starkly but politely criticized Richard Dawkins ' ideas:

* The ESS was a major element used to analyze evolution in Richard Dawkins ' bestselling 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

In The Selfish Gene, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins writes that " Blood-feuds and inter-clan warfare are easily interpretable in terms of Hamilton's genetic theory.

Richard Dawkins has rejected the charge of " fundamentalism ," arguing that critics mistake his " passion "— which he says may match that of evangelical Christians — for an inability to change his mind.

* Natural ' Knowledge ' and Natural ' Design ' by Richard Dawkins

Among its more famous critics are the evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins, Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould – notable, given the diversity of this trio's views on other scientific matters.

* Dawkins, Richard.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The word meme originated with Richard Dawkins ' 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

Richard Dawkins initially defined meme as a noun that " conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation ".

Richard Dawkins noted the three conditions that must exist for evolution to occur:

Although social scientists such as Max Weber sought to understand and explain religion in terms of a cultural attribute, Richard Dawkins called for a re-analysis of religion in terms of the evolution of self-replicating ideas apart from any resulting biological advantages they might bestow.