Richard Dawkins young_English ethologist,_evolutionary biologist_ and author

Richard Dawkins

I've been reading Richard Dawkins' selected essays, collected as A Devil's Chaplain, and telling everyone I know the jaw-dropping things I've been learning from it. Interesting facts are interesting facts, though: what makes Dawkins an outstanding science writer is the way he conveys the most complex of ideas in language and imagery that a child could understand. The creature depicted on his tie here is a crocoduck, one of the concepts he mentions in his forthcoming book The Greatest Show on…

Richard Dawkins x Andres (2015) Sagrado con Razón / Seacred Reason

Prof. Richard Dawkins is an atheist and well-known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. He has since written several popular science books, including best-seller The God Delusion, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In The God Delusion, which has sold more than two million copies, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion— "a fixed false…

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. (Richard Dawkins)