BBC Profile (2/3)

Portrait of Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist who has been outspoken in his support of Darwinism, atheism and secular humanism and opposition to religion.

He has written several books, including the iconic The Selfish Gene (1976), and holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

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[bdf2718]

One of the greatest thinkers of our age.

[dawkinschannel]

Amen...

[vassekb]

yup, up there with carl sagan

[Bethos1247]

Why isn't such stuff thought in schools?

[hipp6y]

there goes the bbc repeating the same old crap tale about atheists being obviously hollow dummies. because if you don't have an invisible dude to tell you things, you have nothing, right?

[bersa888]

...so, in a way, turning to violence because of religious beliefs (not the only reason for violence, but for the sake of this argument) is actually regressing to the core of natural selection, making itself a product of it and and proving that it should belong to an early time in human evolution.

[hunga224]

All through the history of the human race,religion has always seen great thinkers as the enemy,and it does all it can to silence them.