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Richard Dawkins
Former Professor for Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
Richard Dawkins was the inaugural Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. In addition to more than 60 scientific papers, he has published eighteen books, including the best-selling The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Blind Watchmaker. He has presented eleven documentaries on British TV and played a part in many more.
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Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
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The famed author and public intellectual has a bone to pick with the American legal system.
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Author, speaker, and public intellectual Richard Dawkins is a first-class debater on subjects as grand and reaching as the very existence (or lack thereof) of a master creator. But he's got a simple yet highly effective technique to win people over to see his point of view. Find out what it is right here.
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Does religion help us survive? No more than moths thrive in flame, says Richard Dawkins.
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Will A.I. take us over, and one day look back on this time period as the dawn of their civilization? Richard Dawkins posits an interesting idea, or at the very least a premise to a good science-fiction novel.
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All science begins with a leap of intuition, says Richard Dawkins, but we can only ever find objective truths by knowing when to let evidence take over from emotion.
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Do animals feel pain? Well, yes. Obviously. They may even feel pain a lot stronger than humans do.