1. Quotations ▼ Richard Dawkins has become a leading Controversialist in a few areas.

2. “Is religion best understood as an infectious disease of the mind?” —Biologist Richard Dawkins.

3. “Miracles, by definition, violate the principles of science.” —RICHARD DAWKINS, FORMER PROFESSOR FOR PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE.

4. 20 For me, that's where the cold, intolerant reductionism of Richard Dawkins and Lewis Wolpert becomes politically lethal.

5. It always comes back, as Richard Dawkins complained all that long time ago, it always comes back to genes.

6. And the trick that Richard Dawkins does, which is to say, to look at them as simply as genes, as vehicles for genes.

7. This conclusion should particularly discomfit popular proponents of atheism, such as Richard Dawkins, whose position is entirely based on demonstrably faulty arguments.

8. If you are already familiar with the Biomorph concept described in Richard Dawkins' book "The Blind Watchmaker", skip ahead to the Quick Start section below

9. Responsible for doing wrong or causing undesirable effects; deserving blame: "Ignorance is usually a passive state, seldom deliberately sought or intrinsically Blameworthy" (Richard Dawkins).

10. The New Atheists, as they have been called, include Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and bestselling author and journalist Christopher Hitchens-- outspoken secularists who depict religious structures

11. To grasp mentally; understand: "Science is the systematic method by which we Apprehend what is true about the real world in which we live" (Richard Dawkins)

12. In the book "The Blind Watchmaker", Richard Dawkins[1] has described his journeys through a genetic cyberspace where he models the evolution of organisms he calls "Biomorphs" in 2D(dimensional) space

13. 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 46: Genes are competing directly with their Alleles for survival, since their Alleles in the gene pool are rivals for their slot on the

14. After criticizing some of Richard Dawkins’ reasoning, influential evolutionist Richard Lewontin wrote that many scientists are willing to accept scientific claims that are against common sense “because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.”

15. Blame·wor·thi·er, blame·wor·thi·est Responsible for doing wrong or causing undesirable effects; deserving blame: "Ignorance is usually a passive state, seldom deliberately sought or intrinsically Blameworthy" (Richard Dawkins).

16. ‘This is an Anthropocentric approach, and implies equity between generations, although it doesn't call for it in the present.’ ‘Clearly such a value - system is still Anthropocentric.’ ‘The perspective is decidedly Anthropocentric, a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.’

17. ‘This is an Anthropocentric approach, and implies equity between generations, although it doesn't call for it in the present.’ ‘Clearly such a value - system is still Anthropocentric.’ ‘The perspective is decidedly Anthropocentric, a criticism that has been frequently levelled even at Richard Dawkins.’

18. Kearney is critical of Habermas's apparent endorsement of a secular faith, and dismantles the pretensions of antitheism, the "Antitheistic squad," as he calls it, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, which reduces religion to its perversions, judges it accordingly, and dismisses it, thus denying critical dialogue.

19. Richard Dawkins reviewed the book, noting that it contains a number of factual errors, such as the misidentification of a sea snake as an eel (one is a reptile, the other a fish) and in two places uses images of fishing-lures copied from the internet instead of actual species.

20. Biomorph may refer to: A shape resembling that of a living organism (such as bacteria), though not necessarily of biotic origin One of the virtual creatures in a computer simulation described by Richard Dawkins in his book The Blind Watchmaker In Biomorphism, shapes that derive their form from nature as with contemporary architecture art

21. In the section on Agnosticism in his famous book "The God Delusion," renowned scientist Richard Dawkins mentions the "tooth fairy" analogy to argue that while we should be technically agnostic on the existence of fairies because we lack evidence in either direction, in practice we are all (or at least the reasonable among us) "a-fairyists."