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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an Englishethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins first 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 the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. This concept is presented in his book The Extended Phenotype. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Dawkins is a noted atheist, and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. In his most popular book, his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. He is an opponent of creationism being taught in schools. He makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual.
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think is a festschrift of 25 essays written in recognition of the life and work of Richard Dawkins. It was published in 2006, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Selfish Gene. A wide range of topics is covered from many fields including evolutionary biology, philosophy, and psychology. Space is also given to writers who are not in full agreement with Dawkins. The book is edited by two of Dawkins' former PhD students, Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley. (ISBN 9780199291168)
Reception
The reviews of the book have been mixed, but the controversial title phrase, "How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think" has been explained by considering Dawkins to have worked as an influential educator and concise author, of The Selfish Gene, who promoted the key ideas of others about evolutionary biology, also including some controversial ideas which are not as widely accepted. As the author of a popular science book, Dawkins had popularized ideas by George C. Williams about group selection, William D. Hamilton on the theory of kin selection in evolution, biologist/geneticist John Maynard Smith on evolutionarily stable strategies, and Robert L. Trivers about reciprocal altruism and competition between siblings versus parent and child.
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Podcasts:
Richard Dawkins
ALBUMS
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution released: 2009
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Unabridged) released: 2009
- The God Delusion (feat. narrators: Richard Dawkins & Lalla Ward) released: 2006
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Released 2009- Chapter 02-07: Dogs, Cows and Cabbages
- Chapter 02-08: Dogs, Cows and Cabbages
- Chapter 02-09: Dogs, Cows and Cabbages
- Chapter 03-01: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-02: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-03: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-04: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-05: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-06: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-07: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-08: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-09: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-10: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Chapter 03-11: The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Unabridged)
Released 2009- Preface
- Only a Theory
- Dogs, Cows and Cabbages
- The Primrose Path to Macro-Evolution
- Silence and Slow Time
- Before Our Very Eyes
- Missing Link, What Do You Mean Missing
- Missing Persons, Missing No Longer
- You Did It Yourself in Nine Months
- The Ark of the Continents
- The Tree of Cousinship
- History Written All Over Us
- Arms Races and Evolutionary Theodicy
- There Is Grandeur in This View of Life
- Appendix - The History-Deniers
The God Delusion (feat. narrators: Richard Dawkins & Lalla Ward)
Released 2006- Chapter 01-01: A Deeply Religious Non-Believer: Deserved Respect
- Chapter 01-02: A Deeply Religious Non-Believer
- Chapter 01-03: A Deeply Religious Non-Believer: Undeserved Respect
- Chapter 02-01: The God Hypothesis
- Chapter 02-02: The God Hypothesis
- Chapter 02-03: The God Hypothesis: Monotheism
- Chapter 02-04: The God Hypothesis: The Poverty of Agnosticism
- Chapter 02-05: The God Hypothesis
- Chapter 02-06: The God Hypothesis
- Chapter 02-07: The God Hypothesis
- Chapter 02-08: The God Hypothesis: The Great Prayer Experiment
- Chapter 02-09: The God Hypothesis: Little Green Man
- Chapter 02-10: The God Hypothesis
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Penn Jillette: An Atheist's Guide to the 2012 Election | Big Think
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Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their significance is their meaning, not their narrative content. Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Its conclusions tentatively may be true or false, but its significance is its explanatory power: one has confidence in the process of science, even though some explanations change over time. Myth and science thus seem very different, but each has been utilized by proponents of both sides of the Christian creationism and evolution controversy. Eugenie Scott, Founding Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Understanding, explores how this role is essential in comprehending (...
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The Indian Atheist - Trailer
############################## The Indian Atheist - Introduction ******************************************* A tribute to the Indian Atheists of the past, and a call for the present ones to unite. ############################## We are Indian. We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Parsi - By birth. But it Doesn't Matter to us Anymore. We are Ashok. We are Jalaluddin. We are Bhagat. We are scattered. We are mourning. We are hopeful. We are sincere. We are honest. We are proud. We are vibrant. We are colorful. We are fearless. We are Narendra. We are Govind. We are Malleshappa. We are Gauri. We are "The Indian Atheist". ************************************************************** Videos: Puneri Dhol Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMKBtpjOkY 'Fire Cere...
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PENN JILLETTE:
Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He co-hosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards. He is currently co host of the Discovery Channel's Penn & Teller Tell a Lie and the author of God, No! and Presto!
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TRANSCRIPT:
Penn Jillette: Everybody seems to think that Obama is in his heart an atheist and in his heart a skeptic. The church he belonged to in Chicago is a whack-job church. It’s about equal to Palin’s church. Granted, he hasn’t been as religious as… do we know off the top of our heads the most religious president in history in terms of references… referencing to god… references to god and in terms of appearing in churches? Who the most religious president in history was? It’s an interesting answer and I got this information from NPR, so it’s probably not slanted in the way you think. The most religious president in history in terms of appearances in churches and mentions of the bible was Clinton.
Bill Clinton is the most religious president we’ve had. He beats George Bush hands down and he beats Carter, who we know was a born-again Christian. He beats him hands down. So Obama does that too. I mean at the 9/11 thing, maybe appropriately he read from the Bible. But you have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ who prays for decisions in the White House, which he said he was or you think he’s a liar. And I’m surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama and their argument is essentially, he’s lying about being religious ‘cause you have to do that to be elected.
I’m not happy with either one of those. I mean, Obama is wicked smart, he’s a wicked good talker, there is no doubt in my mind that his heart is in the right place, unfortunately I think that about almost every president we’ve had, but I think he wants to do good. I don’t think there’s any malicious quality to him at all. But I think in some sense, he’s a believer or he’s a liar. So one to 10? I rate him pretty high on the skepticism, maybe a six or a seven, but I rate him that way because somewhere in my heart I think he might be lying about being religious and that’s horrible. It’s a horrible reason to like somebody. I like him because he might be a liar. Horrible.
Question: Michele Bachmann.
Penn Jillette: Michele Bachman’s blasphemy is greater than anything I’ve ever accomplished. I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes and hurricanes were the way God was trying to get the attention of politicians. I cannot imagine a serious religious person reading that quote or hearing that quote and saying, “Yeah, right on.” It is solipsistic, it is opportunistic, it is cynical. It is deep and it is wrong and it is an insult to religious people everywhere.
For an atheist, it’s a burlesque; it’s a little bit of a joke you can dismiss her. But I can’t see it as an atheist. I see it through my father’s eyes, you know, my father was a Christian his whole life. And if he had heard Michelle Bachman say that, he would have looked away from the TV. The idea that you would lightly state that people were suffering and dying in order to, to prove that God was on the side of one politician is sickening. The only reason that Bachman and Rick Perry are able to say this stuff is because of a magic word. And this magic word is, “Christian.” And if you look back in history, the word “Christian” doesn’t really appear in the way we use it today until the anti-abortion debate in the ‘60’s. ...
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PENN JILLETTE:
Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He co-hosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards. He is currently co host of the Discovery Channel's Penn & Teller Tell a Lie and the author of God, No! and Presto!
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TRANSCRIPT:
Penn Jillette: Everybody seems to think that Obama is in his heart an atheist and in his heart a skeptic. The church he belonged to in Chicago is a whack-job church. It’s about equal to Palin’s church. Granted, he hasn’t been as religious as… do we know off the top of our heads the most religious president in history in terms of references… referencing to god… references to god and in terms of appearing in churches? Who the most religious president in history was? It’s an interesting answer and I got this information from NPR, so it’s probably not slanted in the way you think. The most religious president in history in terms of appearances in churches and mentions of the bible was Clinton.
Bill Clinton is the most religious president we’ve had. He beats George Bush hands down and he beats Carter, who we know was a born-again Christian. He beats him hands down. So Obama does that too. I mean at the 9/11 thing, maybe appropriately he read from the Bible. But you have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ who prays for decisions in the White House, which he said he was or you think he’s a liar. And I’m surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama and their argument is essentially, he’s lying about being religious ‘cause you have to do that to be elected.
I’m not happy with either one of those. I mean, Obama is wicked smart, he’s a wicked good talker, there is no doubt in my mind that his heart is in the right place, unfortunately I think that about almost every president we’ve had, but I think he wants to do good. I don’t think there’s any malicious quality to him at all. But I think in some sense, he’s a believer or he’s a liar. So one to 10? I rate him pretty high on the skepticism, maybe a six or a seven, but I rate him that way because somewhere in my heart I think he might be lying about being religious and that’s horrible. It’s a horrible reason to like somebody. I like him because he might be a liar. Horrible.
Question: Michele Bachmann.
Penn Jillette: Michele Bachman’s blasphemy is greater than anything I’ve ever accomplished. I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes and hurricanes were the way God was trying to get the attention of politicians. I cannot imagine a serious religious person reading that quote or hearing that quote and saying, “Yeah, right on.” It is solipsistic, it is opportunistic, it is cynical. It is deep and it is wrong and it is an insult to religious people everywhere.
For an atheist, it’s a burlesque; it’s a little bit of a joke you can dismiss her. But I can’t see it as an atheist. I see it through my father’s eyes, you know, my father was a Christian his whole life. And if he had heard Michelle Bachman say that, he would have looked away from the TV. The idea that you would lightly state that people were suffering and dying in order to, to prove that God was on the side of one politician is sickening. The only reason that Bachman and Rick Perry are able to say this stuff is because of a magic word. And this magic word is, “Christian.” And if you look back in history, the word “Christian” doesn’t really appear in the way we use it today until the anti-abortion debate in the ‘60’s. ...
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Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
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(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or fals...
(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their significance is their meaning, not their narrative content. Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Its conclusions tentatively may be true or false, but its significance is its explanatory power: one has confidence in the process of science, even though some explanations change over time. Myth and science thus seem very different, but each has been utilized by proponents of both sides of the Christian creationism and evolution controversy. Eugenie Scott, Founding Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Understanding, explores how this role is essential in comprehending (much less mediating) this persistent conflict. Recorded on 10/04/2018. [11/2018] [Show ID: 34011]
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(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their significance is their meaning, not their narrative content. Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Its conclusions tentatively may be true or false, but its significance is its explanatory power: one has confidence in the process of science, even though some explanations change over time. Myth and science thus seem very different, but each has been utilized by proponents of both sides of the Christian creationism and evolution controversy. Eugenie Scott, Founding Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Understanding, explores how this role is essential in comprehending (much less mediating) this persistent conflict. Recorded on 10/04/2018. [11/2018] [Show ID: 34011]
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The Indian Atheist - Trailer
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The Indian Atheist - Introduction
*******************************************
A tribute to the Indian Atheists of the past,
and a...
##############################
The Indian Atheist - Introduction
*******************************************
A tribute to the Indian Atheists of the past,
and a call for the present ones to unite.
##############################
We are Indian.
We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Parsi - By birth.
But it
Doesn't
Matter to us
Anymore.
We are Ashok.
We are Jalaluddin.
We are Bhagat.
We are scattered.
We are mourning.
We are hopeful.
We are sincere.
We are honest.
We are proud.
We are vibrant.
We are colorful.
We are fearless.
We are Narendra.
We are Govind.
We are Malleshappa.
We are Gauri.
We are "The Indian Atheist".
**************************************************************
Videos:
Puneri Dhol Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMKBtpjOkY
'Fire Ceremony' and 'Twisted Fire':
https://coverr.co/
**************************************************************
Audio:
Prelude # 26 - Josh Woodward:
https://www.joshwoodward.com/
**************************************************************
Image:
https://creativetacos.com/watercolor-textured-backgrounds/
https://wn.com/The_Indian_Atheist_Trailer
##############################
The Indian Atheist - Introduction
*******************************************
A tribute to the Indian Atheists of the past,
and a call for the present ones to unite.
##############################
We are Indian.
We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Parsi - By birth.
But it
Doesn't
Matter to us
Anymore.
We are Ashok.
We are Jalaluddin.
We are Bhagat.
We are scattered.
We are mourning.
We are hopeful.
We are sincere.
We are honest.
We are proud.
We are vibrant.
We are colorful.
We are fearless.
We are Narendra.
We are Govind.
We are Malleshappa.
We are Gauri.
We are "The Indian Atheist".
**************************************************************
Videos:
Puneri Dhol Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMKBtpjOkY
'Fire Ceremony' and 'Twisted Fire':
https://coverr.co/
**************************************************************
Audio:
Prelude # 26 - Josh Woodward:
https://www.joshwoodward.com/
**************************************************************
Image:
https://creativetacos.com/watercolor-textured-backgrounds/
- published: 01 Dec 2019
- views: 74
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PENN JILLETTE:
Penn Jillette is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller. His solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Glenn Beck to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Dancing with the Stars, MTV Cribs, and Chelsea Lately and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller, he has appeared more than twenty times on David Letterman, as well as on several other TV shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Top Chef and The View. He co-hosts the controversial series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, which has been nominated for sixteen Emmy Awards. He is currently co host of the Discovery Channel's Penn & Teller Tell a Lie and the author of God, No! and Presto!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRANSCRIPT:
Penn Jillette: Everybody seems to think that Obama is in his heart an atheist and in his heart a skeptic. The church he belonged to in Chicago is a whack-job church. It’s about equal to Palin’s church. Granted, he hasn’t been as religious as… do we know off the top of our heads the most religious president in history in terms of references… referencing to god… references to god and in terms of appearing in churches? Who the most religious president in history was? It’s an interesting answer and I got this information from NPR, so it’s probably not slanted in the way you think. The most religious president in history in terms of appearances in churches and mentions of the bible was Clinton.
Bill Clinton is the most religious president we’ve had. He beats George Bush hands down and he beats Carter, who we know was a born-again Christian. He beats him hands down. So Obama does that too. I mean at the 9/11 thing, maybe appropriately he read from the Bible. But you have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ who prays for decisions in the White House, which he said he was or you think he’s a liar. And I’m surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama and their argument is essentially, he’s lying about being religious ‘cause you have to do that to be elected.
I’m not happy with either one of those. I mean, Obama is wicked smart, he’s a wicked good talker, there is no doubt in my mind that his heart is in the right place, unfortunately I think that about almost every president we’ve had, but I think he wants to do good. I don’t think there’s any malicious quality to him at all. But I think in some sense, he’s a believer or he’s a liar. So one to 10? I rate him pretty high on the skepticism, maybe a six or a seven, but I rate him that way because somewhere in my heart I think he might be lying about being religious and that’s horrible. It’s a horrible reason to like somebody. I like him because he might be a liar. Horrible.
Question: Michele Bachmann.
Penn Jillette: Michele Bachman’s blasphemy is greater than anything I’ve ever accomplished. I have tried with friends to say the most blasphemous sentence I can possibly say and it does not come close to the blasphemy of Michelle Bachman saying that earthquakes and hurricanes were the way God was trying to get the attention of politicians. I cannot imagine a serious religious person reading that quote or hearing that quote and saying, “Yeah, right on.” It is solipsistic, it is opportunistic, it is cynical. It is deep and it is wrong and it is an insult to religious people everywhere.
For an atheist, it’s a burlesque; it’s a little bit of a joke you can dismiss her. But I can’t see it as an atheist. I see it through my father’s eyes, you know, my father was a Christian his whole life. And if he had heard Michelle Bachman say that, he would have looked away from the TV. The idea that you would lightly state that people were suffering and dying in order to, to prove that God was on the side of one politician is sickening. The only reason that Bachman and Rick Perry are able to say this stuff is because of a magic word. And this magic word is, “Christian.” And if you look back in history, the word “Christian” doesn’t really appear in the way we use it today until the anti-abortion debate in the ‘60’s. ...
For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/penn-jillette-an-atheists-guide-to-the-2012-election
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Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and...
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Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
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(3:29 - Eugenie C. Scott, PhD, 1:02:34 - Q & A) Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their significance is their meaning, not their narrative content. Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Its conclusions tentatively may be true or false, but its significance is its explanatory power: one has confidence in the process of science, even though some explanations change over time. Myth and science thus seem very different, but each has been utilized by proponents of both sides of the Christian creationism and evolution controversy. Eugenie Scott, Founding Executive Director, National Center for Science Education Understanding, explores how this role is essential in comprehending (much less mediating) this persistent conflict. Recorded on 10/04/2018. [11/2018] [Show ID: 34011]
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A tribute to the Indian Atheists of the past,
and a call for the present ones to unite.
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We are Indian.
We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Parsi - By birth.
But it
Doesn't
Matter to us
Anymore.
We are Ashok.
We are Jalaluddin.
We are Bhagat.
We are scattered.
We are mourning.
We are hopeful.
We are sincere.
We are honest.
We are proud.
We are vibrant.
We are colorful.
We are fearless.
We are Narendra.
We are Govind.
We are Malleshappa.
We are Gauri.
We are "The Indian Atheist".
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Videos:
Puneri Dhol Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiMKBtpjOkY
'Fire Ceremony' and 'Twisted Fire':
https://coverr.co/
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Audio:
Prelude # 26 - Josh Woodward:
https://www.joshwoodward.com/
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Image:
https://creativetacos.com/watercolor-textured-backgrounds/
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is an Englishethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins first 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 the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment. This concept is presented in his book The Extended Phenotype. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Dawkins is a noted atheist, and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. In his most popular book, his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. He is an opponent of creationism being taught in schools. He makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Richard_Dawkins
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by La Rocca
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by One Tree Hill
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by Crash Kings
Non Believer
by: La RoccaShe belongs somewhere else, away from my side
so run with what you got, and chase with what you need
i believe the faithful fell, didn't know their way back
so far away from home, but brother we're not alone
and i promise to climb back up here to you
waiting for this message coming through
is it mine? is it mine?
as she pulls inside
is it mine? is it mine?
how the lights turn white
do you take the non believers/ cause i'm a non believer
she belongs somewhere else, where pain isn't hope
and lives get every chance, not part of every plan
i believe the faithful fell, didn't know their way back
so far away from home, but brother we're not alone
is it mine? is it mine?
as she pulls inside
is it mine? is it mine?