Richard Dawkins

 Richard Dawkins "has established himself as a biological guru" with the publication of books detailing and expanding upon Darwinian theory, according to Times Literary Supplement contributor Stephen R. L. Clark. Wired Magazine says this "Revolutionary Evolutionist" is "the first true ethologist of the gene". Richard Dawkins "has been concerned to convince the literate public that they must now take evolutionary theory seriously as the context within which to think about ourselves and the world," writes Clark "and he strives to bring his theories to an audience of lay readers through comprehensible analogies and clear writing.""

His website is: http://richarddawkins.net


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Criticism
In a March 2008 interview, Chris Hedges answered the question: "So you think that Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris are just shills for a neocon agenda?" By noting: "Well, Dawkins is a little different, because he's British. But looking at our own homegrown version of new atheism, yes. Hitchens and Harris do for the neocon agenda in a secular way what the religious right does in a so-called religious way."


 * A. J. Chien, "The New Atheism", Znet, September 10, 2007.
 * Alan MacLeod, "Radical Islam, Richard Dawkins, and the New Atheist Fundamentalists", State of Nature, July 2013.

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