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Richard Dawkins is delusional. That might be a strange thing to say about an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, but his new book, "The God Delusion" (406 pages of turgid polemics published in late 2006 by Houghton Mifflin), amply documents his delusion. And what is that delusion? That Dawkins is debunking religion -- all religion, for all time and eternity. The bigger delusion, really, is that Dawkins thinks he's talking about religion at all.
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April 28, 2005 | Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous out-of-the-closet living atheist. He is ... the world's most controversial evolutionary biologist. Publication of his 1976 book, "The Selfish Gene," thrust Dawkins into the limelight as the handsome, irascible, human face of scientific reductionism. The book provoked everything from outrage to glee by arguing that natural selection worked its creative powers only through genes, not species or individuals. Humans are merely "gene survival machines," he asserted in the book.
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Wow, so Richard Dawkins has a lot in common with Stephen! Both have relationships with animals, both have read or written books, and both have invented words. Sounds like Richard Dawkins knows how to rack up the points! 255 points on the Get-It-O-Meter! But there is one big elephant in the room: Richard Dawkins is an outspoken critic against creationism. And that’s the kind of elephant in the room that Stephen will see!
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Richard Dawkins has two Honorary Doctorates of Literature as well six Honorary Doctorates of Science, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His medals and prizes include the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Nakayama Prize, the Cosmos International Prize, the Kistler Prize and the Shakespeare Prize.
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Richard Dawkins once again investigates aspects of Darwinian theory in The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. Lee Dembart of the Los Angeles Times calls the work "a clear, logical, rational book that is the antidote to silliness. . . . [The book] cuts through the nonsense about the origin and development of life and leaves it for dead," continues Dembart. "He demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that evolution is the only possible explanation for the world we see around us." In this work, Richard Dawkins refutes the argument that the complexity of life cannot be random... implying a designer or creator. The author uses Charles Darwin's idea of small mutational variation to "demonstrate that it (and it alone) is competent to explain the enormous diversity of living things in all their extremes of complexity and specialization," writes David Jones in the London Times. Like the author's previous work, Jones finds that The Blind Watchmaker "is brilliant exposition, tightly argued but kept readable by plentiful recourse to analogies and examples.
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Richard Dawkins won both the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Literary Prize in 1987 for The Blind Watchmaker. The television film of the book, shown in the 'Horizon' series, won the Sci-Tech Prize for the Best Science Programme of 1987. He has ... won the 1989 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award for the furtherance of the public understanding of science. In 1994 he won the Nakayama Prize for Human Science and in 1995 was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. by the University of St Andrews. Humanist of the Year Award 1996.
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