There are barriers that we have takım up in our minds and certainly the barrier between Homo sapiens and any other species is an artificial barrier in the sense that its a kind of 'accident' that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Dalam karya ilmiahnya, Dawkins terkenal karena mempopulerkan pandangan evolusi yang berbasis gen. Pandangan ini paling jelas tergambar dalam bukunya The Selfish Gene (1976), di mana ia mencatat bahwa "semua kehidupan berkembang sesuai dengan kelangsungan hidup diferensial dari entitas yang bereplikasi", dan dalam buku The Extended Phenotype (1982), di mana ia menjelaskan seleksi alam sebagai "proses di mana replikator-replikator saling bersaing untuk menghasilkan lebih banyak daripada yang lain".

We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?

Should we then call the original replicator molecules ‘living’? Who cares? I might say to you ‘Darwin was the greatest man who has ever lived’, and you might say ‘No, Newton was’, but I hope we would hamiÅŸ prolong the argument. The point is that no conclusion of substance would be affected whichever way our argument was resolved. The facts of the lives and achievements of Newton and Darwin remain totally unchanged whether we label them ‘great’ or derece.

(2006). The book relentlessly points out the logical fallacies in religious belief and ultimately concludes that the laws of probability preclude the existence of an omnipotent creator. Dawkins used the book as a ortam to launch the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (2006), an organization that, in dual American and British incarnations, sought to foster the acceptance of atheism and championed scientific answers to existential questions.

Lügat manaı Yunanca "mimeme"'den hasılat. Ancak Richard Dawkins, Gen bencildir kitabında belirttiÄŸi üzere "gen" kelimesi üzere birlik heceli bir ad istediÄŸinden bunu "mem" olarak kısaltmıştır. Hassaten "même" kelimesinin Fransızca "kendi" anlamına gelen köküyle müteallik bandajlantı kurar.

Posed question: "This is probably going to be the most simplest one for you to answer, but: What if you're wrong?"

Dawkins adalah seorang kritikus kreasionisme dan perancangan cerdas yang terkemuka. Pada tahun 1986, dalam bukunya yang berjudul Pembuat Arloji yang Buta, dia memperdebatkan analogi sang pembuat arloji (argumen yang menyatakan bahwa terdapat seorang pencipta adikodrati yang didasari oleh kompleksnya makhluk hidup yang ada di dunia ini).

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity saf ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

If that richard dawkins gives you offence, I'm sorry. You are probably not stupid, insane or wicked; and ignorance is no crime in a country with strong local traditions of interference in the freedom of biology educators to teach the central theorem of their subject.

edit: o fizik kurallarina ulaşınca bilim sevdalisi dostlarim, onlar da dawkins ve onun gibilerin tanrisi, doğal simdilik.

Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intolerant and violent things, scientific technology will provide you with by far the most efficient way of doing so.

On the Argument from Degree: "That's an argument? You might birli well say, people vary in smelliness but we kiÅŸi make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness.

This is where they come into their own, for there's money in hope: the more desperate the hope, the richer the pickings.