Richard Dawkins: A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever

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Richard Dawkins: "A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever". An extract from chapter I of "The God Delusion" (Richard Dawkins @ Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia; October 23, 2006).

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Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain's leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" for 2007.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term "meme". He is a prominent critic 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.

Richard Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book "The God Delusion", he contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that faith qualifies as a delusion − as a fixed false belief.

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Dawkins FTW

[WitchyWayWoman]

What is wonderful and so overlooked by this clip is that Dawkins clearly states that an Einsteinian view of theology is not problematic which means that there is still room for theological and philosophical research. His problem is with religion and the concept of a personal deity, not naturalistic spirituality.

[1tabligh]

@Cryotropical Then how can you delude yourself and believe that hydrogen and oxygen, electrons and protons, should first produce themselves, then be the source for all other beings, and finally decree the laws that regulate themselves and the rest of the material world?

[shandcunt]

Gotta Love DAWKINS, the man

[Rockster969]

@1tabligh you dickhead, you've just said man is completely unable to comprehend god, so what the fuck are you yammering unknowable rubbish for?

[Shavarnarak]

I know Einstein wasn't religious, but so what if he was?

Einstein may have been very smart for a human, but humans aren't infallible. If Einstein HAD believed in a god, I'd simply have considered him wrong about that, even if he made great contributions to physics.

Arguments from authority may have traction with the fundies, but not with me.

I mean, take Newton. Newton believed in Alchemy. Take the US founders, they believed in Slavery. Intelligent people can be dead wrong.