Richard Dawkins
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Outspoken author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins has made it his mission in life to preach genetics to the masses and root out religious dogma wherever he finds it. He is a fellow of New College, Oxford, and former Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science
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Richard Dawkins apologises for causing storm with Down's syndrome tweet
21 Aug 2014: Author told woman on Twitter it would be immoral not to abort pregnancy if she knew baby had Down's syndrome
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He sold 1.5m copies of The God Delusion. So why does Richard Dawkins think science is losing its war with religion?
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"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes."
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31 Aug 2014:
Letters: The question ‘what is wrong with positive eugenics?’ has a simple answer
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29 Aug 2014: Giles Fraser: The one thing one ought to expect from humanists is that they’d be good at protecting the human
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24 Aug 2014:
Elizabeth Day: The death of the actor has occasioned many ill-advised opinions
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21 Aug 2014: Author told woman on Twitter it would be immoral not to abort pregnancy if she knew baby had Down's syndrome
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21 Aug 2014: Scientist says a mother has a responsibility to ‘abort it and try again’ if she knows her baby would have the disorder
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18 Aug 2014:
Letters: The notion that religious inspiration has contributed to the bulk of great art in the past needs more careful examination
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17 Aug 2014: From poetry to provocation, on film and in person, catch up with the highlights of a packed and wide-ranging weekend
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15 Aug 2014: Letters: I’m quite sure Richard Dawkins could not create an artwork such as the Sistine Chapel. But neither could the pope
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15 Aug 2014:
Philosopher tells festival audience that Dawkins and his allies don’t always make good sense – and nor does Islam
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14 Aug 2014: Letters: Mathematics, engineering and astrophysics depend on ‘unjustified’ concepts. Religions have probably been the sources of most human imagination
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13 Aug 2014: George RR Martin came back, Jackie Kay and Will Self delighted their crowds and Richard Dawkins talked about his childhood ... A lot can happen in two days at the international book festival
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13 Aug 2014:
'Angels at the altar' fantasy of now confirmed atheist revealed as leading scientist speaks at Edinburgh book festival
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6 Aug 2014:
He also lashes out at David Frost and Richard Dawkins
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30 Jul 2014: Eleanor Robertson: Dawkins in 2014 is a man so convinced that he possesses God-like powers of omniscience that he can’t understand why everyone is angry at him for pointing out the obvious
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12 Jun 2014:
Selfishness, self-interest or self-absorption, it's time to reflect on and suggest songs about inward-looking attitudes and the me, me, me, says Peter Kimpton
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