Richard Dawkins, (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is well known for his straightforward criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.
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TheGuruAxle 1 year ago
"I don't care about the answer very much, really..." That demonstrates one of Dawkins' points: religion is anti-rationality.
He follows this up with, "I care about what's true." Like so many religionists, he has contradicted himself within a couple of sentences.
"...Christianity encompasses everything about life." He must think that life is a gigantic delusion.
"Why does it matter...?" The childish resort to imposing purpose on everything, in this case on non-entities.
musekiteer 1 year ago