As one of the leading advocates of the New Atheism, Dawkins has been instrumental in trying to rebrand religious skepticism. Among other initiatives, Dawkins has promoted the idea that atheists call ...

Richard Dawkins, the scientist and outspoken atheist, speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about terrorism, and how the world has changed since he first... Richard Dawkins On Terrorism And Religion SCOTT ...

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 ...

Richard Dawkins has once again been accused of Islamophobia after he posted a comment online describing the Muslim call to prayer as “aggressive-sounding”. The prominent author and well-known atheist ...

Richard Dawkins, the University of Oxford biologist, powerful defender of Darwinian evolution, and vehement critic of religion, read from his new book, The God Delusion, last month at Randolph-Macon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

FEW scientists have acquired such a high public profile as Richard Dawkins – and maintained it amid such controversy. His first book The Selfish Gene, published in 1976, launched him to fame as a ...

Do Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher, and other true believers really offer a different path, or are their methods and manner merely a mirror image of the fundamentalism they so despise? We are spiritual ...