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As a prelude to these contestable claims, Mr Dawkins examines the interesting question of why religion is so widespread.

By the end, the infidels were all holding firm, while at least one believer's faith was wobbling because of the arguments of Dawkins.

Dawkins : As an aside, such pessimism about humanity is popular among rationalists to the point of outright masochism.

Mr Dawkins dreams of a day when atheists are as well organised and influential as Christian conservatives have become.

Dawkins's "selfish gene, " a book of extensive academic debate has never been its point of view.

This reminded me of the recent dustup between Richard Dawkins and the blogger known as SkepChick.

Dwayne Dawkins is a darn fibber and I saw Arnold Adams talking to someone with a funny accent.

It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.

Dawkins : In exchange, I am happy to agree with you that I could, and probably should, have put it more tactfully.

just look at how the duke of debunkers, Richard Dawkins, is sometimes perceived, even by his fans.

That was Dawkins ' s hope as he began writing the code in BASIC.

So sure was Dawkins of its deep concealment that he offered $1, 000 to the first person presenting him with the genes to the Holy Grail.

Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution.

He challenges the atheistic positions of R. Dawkins in the biological sphere and of Stephen Hawking in physics.

So I disagree with Richard Dawkins when he says "religions make existence claims, and this means scientific claims. "

We commissioned Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins to respond independently to the question "Where does evolution leave God? "

SOME people, notably Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, regard religion as a disease.

Professor Richard Dawkins, Britain's best-known evolutionary biologist and a leading secularist, called the findings "a national disgrace" .

However, Dawkins (1976), who coined the term "replicator, " refers to genes this way and I shall do the same.

Even if it is granted that religion should be expunged , how does Mr Dawkins suggest this could be done?

Atheists will love Mr Dawkins's incisive logic and rapier wit and theists will find few better tests of the robustness of their faith.

Richard Dawkins, 69, was educated at Oxford, later lectured there and became its first professor of the public understanding of science.

Dawkins, by far the most anti religious lecturer, praised Morris's evolutionary views but called his Christianity "gratuitous. "

Over the following months, Dawkins tramped the back waters of Biomorph Land hunting for non plant and abstract shapes.

And the trick that Richard Dawkins does, which is to say, to look at them as simply as genes, as vehicles for genes.

Richard Dawkins: The unity of life that comes about through evolution, since we're all descended from a single common ancestor.

"For the same reason you don't want to, " Barrow responded drily . Everyone laughed except Dawkins, who protested, "That's not an answer! "

Mr Dawkins advocates the idea that religion is a by-product of mental abilities that evolved for other purposes.

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins writes that we must "try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish" .

The author, Richard Dawkins, accuses Jesus of having "dodgy family values" .

First, Mr Dawkins wants to subvert the mode of transmission between parent and child.

Hawking, mischievously, asks Dawkins why he is so "obsessed with God" .

Dawkins's Biomorph Land was a fertile, but puritanical , place that hadn't a hint of sex.

And genes, as Richard Dawkins has famously suggested, are pretty selfish.

Richard Dawkins, too, sees the two camps as compatible.

In training his Darwinian guns on religion, Richard Dawkins risks destroying a larger target than he intends.

What about our old pal Richard Dawkins?

Richard Dawkins: He was. Good.

His name was Jack Dawkins, but he was usually called "The Artful Dodger" .

Dawkins wants to know if there is life on other planets.

They pointed to figures such as Richard Dawkins, a polemical atheist, who called the pope a "leering old villain in a frock" .

As Mr. Dawkins pointed out, we can now explain the origin of organisms without positing a god.

Ruth Dawkins fell for a man 35 years older than she is.

Richard Dawkins argues that evolution leaves God with nothing to do

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene