"The Dawkins Delusion? The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the denial of the divine is a book by Christian theologian Alister McGrath and psychologist Joanna Collicutt McGrath. It is written from a Christian perspective as a response to arguments put forth in ""The God Delusion"" by Richard Dawkins. The work was published in the United Kingdom in February 2007 by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) and in the United States in July 2007. McGrath criticizes Dawkins for what he perceives to be ""a dogmatic conviction"" to ""a religious fundamentalism which refuses to allow its ideas to be examined"
"to prominence in 1976 following the release of ""The Selfish Gene"", increasingly figured in British irreligion with the release of his 1986 work ""The Blind Watchmaker"", in which he argued in favour of evolutionary natural selection as opposed to intelligent design and creationism. In the 21st century, New Atheism became a popular topic of debate, support and critique in the United Kingdom. Dawkins' 2006 book ""The God Delusion"" and Christopher Hitchens' 2007 book ""God Is Not Great"" were considered emblematic works of the era among British authors, and Dawkins advocated for the Brights movement. The Atheist Bus Campaign was inaugurated"
"2007, the book was the best-seller in their sales of books on religion and spirituality, with Hitchens's ""God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"" coming second. This led to a 50% growth in that category over the three years to that date. Dawkins dedicates the book to Douglas Adams and quotes the novelist: ""Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"" The book contains ten chapters. The first few chapters make a case that there is almost certainly no God, while the rest"
"in 2013, Dawkins was voted the world's top thinker based on 65 names chosen by a largely US and UK-based expert panel. In 2005, the Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded him its Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his ""concise and accessible presentation of scientific knowledge"". He won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2006, as well as the Galaxy British Book Awards's Author of the Year Award for 2007. In the same year, he was listed by ""Time"" magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007, and was ranked 20th in"
"books such as The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, In 2006 Dawkins also founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Dawkins is an atheist and is well known for his criticism of creationism. Dawkins has been awarded many prestigious academic and writing awards and he makes regular television, radio and Internet appearances, predominantly discussing his books, his atheism, and his ideas and opinions as a public intellectual. First, Dawkins examines issues surrounding the notion of sin. He also explores the rituals that surround mating and the science of disgust and taboo. Dawkins tries to answer the question If"
"Dawkins vs. Gould Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest is a book about the differing views of biologists Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould by philosopher of biology Kim Sterelny. When first published in 2001 it became an international best-seller. A new edition was published in 2007 to include Gould's ""The Structure of Evolutionary Theory"" finished shortly before his death in 2002, and more recent works by Dawkins. The synopsis below is from the 2007 publication. In the introductory chapter the author points out that there have been many conflicts in biology. Still, few have been as public or"
"Oxford and following Hamilton's death in 2000, Dawkins wrote his obituary and organised a secular memorial service. b. The debate ended with the motion ""That the doctrine of creation is more valid than the theory of evolution"" being defeated by 198 votes to 115. Richard Dawkins Clinton Richard Dawkins, (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. 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"
"was named Author of the Year. Nevertheless, the book received mixed reviews from critics, including both religious and atheist commentators. In the ""London Review of Books"", Terry Eagleton accused Richard Dawkins of not doing proper research into the topic of his work, religion, and further agreed with critics who accused Dawkins of committing straw man fallacies against theists (something Dawkins rebuts). Oxford theologian Alister McGrath (author of ""The Dawkins Delusion?"" and """") argues that Dawkins is ignorant of Christian theology, and therefore unable to engage religion and faith intelligently. In reply, Dawkins asks: ""Do you have to read up on"
"a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."" With many examples, he explains that one does not need religion to be moral and that the roots of religion and of morality can be explained in non-religious terms. In early December 2006, it reached number four in the ""New York Times"" Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller list after nine weeks on the list. More than three million copies were sold. According to Dawkins in a 2016 interview with Matt Dillahunty, an unauthorised Arabic translation of this book has been downloaded 3 million times"
"ban had been lifted. List of editions in English: The book has been officially translated into many different languages, such as Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish. Dawkins has also promoted unofficial translations of the book in languages such as Arabic and Bengali. There are also Telugu and Tamil translations of the book. Non-exhaustive list of international editions: Chronological order of publication (oldest first) The God Delusion The God Delusion is a 2006 best-selling book by English biologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford and former holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science"
"in Saudi Arabia. The book has attracted widespread commentary, with many books written in response. Dawkins has argued against creationist explanations of life in his previous works on evolution. The theme of ""The Blind Watchmaker"", published in 1986, is that evolution can explain the apparent design in nature. In ""The God Delusion"" he focuses directly on a wider range of arguments used for and against belief in the existence of a god (or gods). Dawkins identifies himself repeatedly as an atheist, while also pointing out that, in a sense, he is also agnostic, though ""only to the extent that I"
"of Science. In 2004, Balliol College, Oxford, instituted the Dawkins Prize, awarded for ""outstanding research into the ecology and behaviour of animals whose welfare and survival may be endangered by human activities"". In September 2008, he retired from his professorship, announcing plans to ""write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will warn them against believing in 'anti-scientific' fairytales."" In 2011, Dawkins joined the professoriate of the New College of the Humanities, a new private university in London, established by A. C. Grayling, which opened in September 2012. Dawkins is best known for his popularisation of the gene as"
"A Devil's Chaplain A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins. Published five years after Dawkins's previous book ""Unweaving the Rainbow"", it contains essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, terrorism, religion and creationism. A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late adversary Stephen Jay Gould. The book's title is a reference to a quotation of Charles Darwin, made in reference to Darwin's lack of belief in how ""a perfect world"" was designed by God (and a reference to Reverend Robert Taylor):"
"and all uses of race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in shaping current homeland security policies. Misguided guilt about the past continues to hamper our ability to prevent future terrorist attacks. There was considerable media interest in the book especially on the West Coast of the U.S. and Hawaii, where the impact of relocation and internment in World War II was greatest. It made the ""New York Times"" Best Seller list in September 2004. As anticipated by Malkin, the book proved to be highly controversial, with civil liberties and Asian-American groups in particular being harshly critical of the book's conclusions, while"
"that religion, with its unsatisfying ""answers"" to life's mysteries, could never be. An appendix gives addresses for those ""needing support in escaping religion"". The book provoked an immediate response, both positive and negative, and was published with endorsements from scientists, such as Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA James D. Watson, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, as well as popular writers of fiction and the illusionists Penn and Teller. Metacritic reported that the book had an average score of 59 out of 100. The book was nominated for Best Book at the British Book Awards, where Richard Dawkins"
"to the issues under discussion, as well as the relationship of the publications to each other, such as authors responding to each other through their publications, or supporting the stance of other authors, etc. He also tries to further clarify some points in the process. Dawkins vs. Gould Dawkins vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest is a book about the differing views of biologists Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould by philosopher of biology Kim Sterelny. When first published in 2001 it became an international best-seller. A new edition was published in 2007 to include Gould's ""The Structure of Evolutionary"
"as various Protozoa. Chloroplasts and mitochondria have their own genomes, and they replicate independent of the cell in which they live. Dawkins acknowledges how the endosymbiotic theory proposed by Lynn Margulis is now virtually universally accepted. ""The Ancestor's Tale"" was popular when first published. Carl Zimmer of New York Times stated that the book is one of the best to understand Evolutionary trees. The Ancestor's Tale The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards"
"both a large audience and strong counter-reactions from religious scholars. The ""Post"" said the book ""doesn't drill many new theological wells,"" but that Harris ""might be the first man to be anointed 'Hot Atheist' in Rolling Stone magazine."" Jamie Doward of ""The Observer"" said Harris ""wastes no time taking on his enemy - Christian fundamentalism of the sort that influences President George W. Bush."" Writing in an editorial in ""The Seattle Times"", Intelligent Design proponent David Klinghoffer said that ""Letter to a Christian Nation"" and Richard Dawkins's ""The God Delusion"" were the top two bestselling religious books. However, he went"
"was cancelled due to ongoing controversy over the Rushdie affair. He has given a high appraisal of Nick Cohen's book ""You Can't Read this Book"", arguing that libel laws create a culture of ""tacit censorship"" in liberal democracies. In 2009, Dawkins agreed to give a talk at the University of Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma House of Representatives introduced bills attacking him, declaring that his views on evolution are ""contrary and offensive to the views and opinions of most citizens of Oklahoma."" In his speech, the professor argued that ""what's really offensive is the bizarre idea that a state university should"
"""The Daily Telegraph""'s 2007 list of 100 greatest living geniuses. Since 2003, the Atheist Alliance International has awarded a prize during its annual conference, honouring an outstanding atheist whose work has done the most to raise public awareness of atheism during that year; it is known as the Richard Dawkins Award, in honour of Dawkins's own efforts. In February 2010, Dawkins was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers. In 2012, ichthyologists in Sri Lanka honored Dawkins by creating ""Dawkinsia"" as a new genus name (members of this genus were formerly members of the genus"
"into the environment. In 2006, he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. In interviews, he has called himself an agnostic about many matters of religious faith, instead endorsing reason. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In ""The Blind Watchmaker"" (1986), 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 that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer."
"for his book ""Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table""; In 2012 he was the recipient of the Drake Group's Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for his part in the struggle against Div IA athletics corruption in American higher education. Dowling came to national attention in the 1990s through his work with the Rutgers 1000 campaign which fought for the removal of Division I sports from Rutgers. In September 2007, a controversy arose when Rutgers Athletic Director Robert Mulcahy accused Dowling of racism for having dismissed, in a ""New York Times"" interview, the claim"
"Ridley. () 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 Williams about group selection, William Hamilton on the theory of kin selection in evolution, biologist/geneticist John Maynard Smith on evolutionarily stable strategies,"
"The God Delusion The God Delusion is a 2006 best-selling book by English biologist Richard Dawkins, a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford and former holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. In ""The God Delusion"", Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig's statement in """" (1991) that ""when one person suffers from"
"am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden"". Dawkins had long wanted to write a book openly criticising religion, but his publisher had advised against it. By the year 2006, his publisher had warmed to the idea. Dawkins attributes this change of mind to ""four years of Bush"" (who ""literally said that God had told him to invade Iraq""). By that time, a number of authors, including Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, who together with Dawkins were labelled ""The Unholy Trinity"" by Robert Weitzel, had already written books openly attacking religion. According to the Amazon.co.uk retailer in August"
"and Robert Trivers about reciprocal altruism and competition between siblings versus parent and child. 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"
"and author Richard Dawkins, noting his criticism of religion was unlikely to change religious fundamentalist minds and in fact more likely to strengthen their doubt of the scientific data. The framing science proposal created a large, often contentious debate within the online scientific blogging community, though research continues to study the influence of framing. In the book ""Unscientific America"", Mooney and co-author Sheril Kirshenbaum expressed the concern that some science communicators were pressing the view that one must make a choice between accepting science or accepting religion. Critics of Mooney labelled him as an ""accommodationist"", or one who seeks to"
"have a great deal on its conscience"". Hitchens therefore says in ""God Is Not Great"" that humanity is in need of a renewed Enlightenment. The book received mixed responses, ranging from praise in ""The New York Times"" for his ""logical flourishes and conundrums"" to accusations of ""intellectual and moral shabbiness"" in the ""Financial Times"". ""God Is Not Great"" was nominated for a National Book Award on 10 October 2007. ""God Is Not Great"" affirmed Hitchens's position in the ""New Atheism"" movement. Hitchens was made an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist International and the National Secular Society shortly after its release,"
"The Ancestor's Tale The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life is a 2004 popular science book by Richard Dawkins, with contributions from Dawkins' research assistant Yan Wong. It follows the path of humans backwards through evolutionary history, meeting humanity's cousins as they converge on common ancestors. Dawkins' longest book to date, it was nominated for the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Richard Dawkins starts the tale by talking about history. He claims that evolution rhymes and patterns recur. He talks about our universe that has its own remarkable set of laws and constants which are capable"
"world."" Connected to this concern, Dawkins invited Sean Faircloth to serve as opening speaker on Dawkins's 2011 US book tour. Faircloth is author of the book ""Attack of the Theocrats, How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What We Can Do About It"". The Richard Dawkins Foundation (United States branch) later hired Faircloth, who has ten years experience as a state legislator, as Director of Strategy and Policy. RDFRS also invests in creating, producing and influencing the development of entertainment products for general audiences that support secularism and fight scientific illiteracy. In March 2009, following proposed anti-evolution resolutions by"
"four other individuals and four organizations, including the ACLU and Greenpeace, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, ""ACLU v. NSA"", challenging Bush's NSA warrantless surveillance; the lawsuit was filed by the ACLU. Hitchens wrote book-length biographical essays on Thomas Jefferson (""""), Thomas Paine ("""") and George Orwell (""Why Orwell Matters""). He also became known for his excoriating critiques of public contemporary figures including Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger, the subjects of three full-length texts: """", """", and ""The Trial of Henry Kissinger"" respectively. In 2007, while promoting his book ""God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything"", Hitchens described"
"book received numerous accolades, including the Alternet Best Book of the Year Award, a spot on both the Barnes & Noble and Amazon lists of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007, and notable mention in ""The New York Times"". Scahill's work has sparked several Congressional investigations. In 2010, Scahill testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the United States' shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere: As the war rages on in Afghanistan and—despite spin to the contrary—in Iraq as well, US Special Operations Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency are engaged in parallel, covert, shadow wars that are"
"Only in 1998 was this changed somewhat, with texts presenting a more balanced view, though still mentioning creationism and Lamarckism. At present the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party, which is sympathetic to creationist views, holds power. It was elected in 2002 and again with a greater majority in 2007. In general, material that conflicts with religious beliefs is highly controversial in Turkey. For example, in November 2007 a prosecutor launched a probe into whether Richard Dawkins' book ""The God Delusion"" (2006) is ""an attack on religious values."" Its publisher could face trial and up to one year in prison"