What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the whale. And did you know that there are more individual water-fleas – which ...

A Corte Madera bookstore has stepped up to host an event with evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins just days after Berkeley public radio station KPFA abruptly canceled a similar event, ...

He may be the most controversial atheist on the planet today, but there was once a time when Richard Dawkins was a respectable, churchgoing Christian. In his 1976 best-selling debut book, The Selfish ...

(RNS) The dialogue between faith and science will continue, but, at 74, it is doubtful that Richard Dawkins will show interest in contributing meaningfully to it. (RNS) How sad and frustrating it must ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is the best-selling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. His newest book, An Appetite for Wonder, is the first volume of what will be a two-part ...

Richard Dawkins is the bestselling author of such books as "The Selfish Gene," "The God Delusion" and "Unweaving the Rainbow." The British scientist will appear in “An Evening with Richard Dawkins and ...

The strenuous efforts of Richard Dawkins, renowned scientist, author of The God Delusion, and crusader for atheism, may be backfiring — sending inquiring minds to Christ instead. So write two fellow ...

On Tuesday, famed evolutionary scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins' new book — a memoir called An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist — will be published here in the United States. (It ...

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859. Its basic idea--that life evolved by survival of the fittest through natural selection--has long been accepted as scientific fact. And yet, ...

In “Bringing Down Hell,” a 2013 sonic assault from Missouri band the Order of Elijah, frontman Shannon Low sings, “Looking up into the sky/It’s time that we abolish/All religion and we turn unto the ...

A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery. By Ross Douthat Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of ...