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person_profile-Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins Age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Richard Dawkins

Date of Birth:

Mar 26, 1941

Country of birth:

Kenya Colony

Biography of

Richard Dawkins

    Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

    Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.

    Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.

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Richard Dawkins

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Filmography of

Richard Dawkins

Found 27 Movies in total

Science Friction

Self ( Actor )

... 2022

Intersect

Q42 / Computer ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2018

Losing Our Religion

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit

Himself - Special Appearance ( Actor )

... 2016

The Atheist Delusion

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2016

Beware the Slenderman

Himself ( Actor )

... 2016

Breath of Life

Self ( Actor )

... 2015

Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus

Self (uncredited archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

The Unbelievers

Self ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2013

The Reality of Me

Self ( Actor )

... 2012

... 2012

... 2010

Faith School Menace?

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2010

... 2009

The Genius of Charles Darwin

Richard Dawkins ( Actor )

Writer

... 2008

... 2008

... 2008

The God Delusion Debate

Himself ( Actor )

... 2007

The Enemies of Reason

Himself ( Actor )

Writer

... 2007

The Trouble with Atheism

Himself ( Actor )

... 2006

A War on Science

Richard Dawkins ( Actor )

... 2006

Root of All Evil?

Himself ( Actor )

Writer

... 2006

The God Who Wasn't There

Richard Dawkins ( Actor )

... 2005