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	WIRED 3.07:"Revolutionary Evolutionist"
		Two decades ago, Dawkins presented a radical evolutionary perspective in a small book called The Selfish Gene, a disturbingly persuasive essay arguing that living things are little more than corporal vessels impelled to heed the primal dictates of selfish genes hellbent on their own replication and propagation.
		Dawkins came to Oxford in 1959 as an undergraduate, and eventually came under the spell of Niko Tinbergen, the eminent Danish biologist.
		By proposing an ethology of the gene, Dawkins shifted that debate away from the individual animal as the unit of evolution to the nature, nurture, and behavior of the genes.
	www.2think.org /dawkinswired.shtml (5984 words)

	wish people would put their trust in evidence, not in faith, revelation, tradition, or authority. — LastSuperpower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dawkins has written a whole book entitled "The Extended Phenotype" in which he provides an extraordinarily detailed analysis of the role of the environment shared by species (and by individuals within a species) in shaping the direction of evolutionary development.
		Dawkins concepts of "human adults" with "parental instincts" "adopting a child" import social relations that are relatively modern and simply could not have existed in primitive hominid bands.
		Dawkins argues that individual genes don't (can't) act at the level of the group or entire species but goes on to explain just how it can appear that this is happening - and furthermore how to all intents and purposes, we do have a form of evolution operating on this higher level.
	www.lastsuperpower.net /disc/members/670671732954/forum_topic (6235 words)

	Richard Dawkins Interview
		Dawkins continues, "In the thesis that I read, the author found it was easy enough to fool them to mate with each other by playing them the song of their own species.
		Dawkins then spoke of design, and of the miserable logic of trying to use a God -- who must be complex -- as an explanation of the existence of complex things.
		Dawkins does not seem to have developed this point, and he sometimes allows disdain or mockery to take the place of a clearer understanding of it -- the evolution of resistance to evolution.
	www.positiveatheism.org /writ/dawkins0.htm (5267 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Books: God and Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dawkins' book is an attack on religion, but Eagleton complains that Dawkins' view of religion is crude and reductionist to the extent of practically identifying religion with fundamentalism.
		Dawkins may be excused for not considering this type of revisionist academic Christianity which does not represent the actual beliefs of 99.9% of people who consider themselves Christians.
		Dawkins is faulted for not mentioning "the horrors that science and technology have wreaked on humanity" while dwelling on the misdeeds of religion.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/4329/1/32 (1177 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 17. The Origin of Specious. Harvey Blume. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dawkins waxes rhapsodic about the fact that organisms and computers are, beneath it all, code-driven things.
		Dawkins, for example, has famously observed that "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist," and Dennett scours evolutionary theory in order to purge it of any vestiges of "sky hooks," or interventions from above.
		Gould, for instance, praised Dawkins' description of evolution as a "blind watchmaker" because it so well conveyed how "a process without intentionality, and working only by a 'selfish' principle of reproductive success, can yield organisms of such intricate, adaptive design." But some in Dawkins' camp want to give the watchmaker back his sight.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/17/blume-h.html (1576 words)

	The world's top richard dawkins websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941), better known as Richard Dawkins, is a British zoologist, born in Nairobi, in Kenya.
		Dawkins has been one of the major proponents of sociobiological theory and was the originator of the term meme which spawned the theory of memetics.
		His father, John Clinton Dawkins, was a descendant of the Clinton family which held the Earldom of Lincoln.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/richard_dawkins (631 words)

	Throw away your TV - Dawkins in Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Richard Dawkins is astounded that religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth based on hard evidence.
		In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as 'a process of non-thinking called faith'.
		Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution.
	throwawayyourtv.com /2006/05/dawkins-in-jerusalem.html (94 words)

	FRANCIS BACON AND WESTERN MYSTICISM with PETER DAWKINS
		DAWKINS: He was born in 1561, and he was born under an aura of mystery, and he maintained that mystery throughout the rest of his life.
		DAWKINS: Well, I think the main objection is that of course with the Shakespeare plays, Will Shakespere of Stratford must have written them because his name is on the title page, so of course he wrote them.
		DAWKINS: It was created by this secret school who called themselves the Knights of the Rose Cross, and they took Saint George, the red cross or rose cross knight, as their main symbol -- Saint George piercing the dragon of ignorance, as they looked at it, the dragon of ignorance and vice.
	www.intuition.org /txt/dawkins.htm (3940 words)

	DAWKINS
		John Dawkins deposed that he was born in 1750 in Virginia; when an infant, moved to Randolph County, North Carolina, thence to Richmond County, North Carolina.
		JOHN DAWKINS was born in 1750, in Virginia; soldier in Revolutionary War in NC Militia; died in Richmond County, North Carolina October 29, 1837.
		ALLEN DAWKINS was born in Rockingham, NC in 1808; died November 7, 1897, in Rockingham, NC.
	www.geocities.com /twincousin2334/DAWKINS.html (1071 words)

	Global "Free Trade" Threatens World Food Production
		Dawkins explains the complex issues that impact upon the present and future state of world hunger, while touching upon several ways in which modern biotechnology is now involved in this picture.
		Dawkins speaks early in the book as an advocate for the human "right to adequate food." The US is legally obligated to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which describes the human right to a standard of living including adequate food.
		Dawkins argues that US policy indicates a belief that "what's good for corporations is good for America," and further, in some cases it indicates an abandonment of the rights of the individual person.
	www.ibiblio.org /prism/feb98/global.html (908 words)

	Jimmy Dawkins - fourteen Dawkins albums reviewed
		Jimmy Dawkins plays intense and forceful guitar and when first the horns and then the strings come in I´m down on my knees, I think this song is actually made better the more produced it is. This is a weird song, listen to it.
		Dawkins singing is hard, grunting and ugly, almost as ugly as his guitar tone.
		Dawkins and why not include a soulblues song or two also and maybe a funky workout and could you please change the tone on your guitar on some tracks and why not record another duet with Otis Rush again and....
	hem.fyristorg.com /bukka/review.html (8180 words)

	Amazon.com: Climbing Mount Improbable: Books: Richard Dawkins,Lalla Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dawkins explores how ordered complexity arose by discussing spiders' web-building techniques, the gradual evolution of elephant trunks and of wings (birds, he concludes, evolved from two-legged dinosaurs, not from tree gliders) and the symbiotic relationship between the 900 species of figs and their sole genetic companions, the miniature wasps that pollinate specific fig species.
		Dawkins discusses in detail the evolution of wings and eyes as well as the intriguing mutualistic relationship between figs and the wasps that fertilize them, and these more highly zoology-focused chapters are where he is at his best, which might be expected considering that he is a zoologist.
		Dawkin's love for biology, both in the sense of the study of living things and in the sense of the living things themselves, shows on nearly every page.
	www.amazon.com /Climbing-Mount-Improbable-Richard-Dawkins/dp/0393316823 (2474 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Commentary: Thurtle
		Although Dawkins' frequently evokes the gene and DNA to make his arguments, his gene is most useful if it remains a theoretical construct.
		Dawkins isn't interested in actual DNA sequence or DNA folding or protein DNA interactions; he is interested in the idea of the DNA as linear binary code.
		Dawkins, in his "hyper" postmodern zeal, has shed his skin and uncovered the bytes of information competing in a digital information stream; Gould looks from the skin out and recognizes the importance of pluralism and tolerance in maintaining stable macro-structures.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/gould/commentary/thurtle.html (3656 words)

	Richard Dawkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1967 to 1969, Dawkins was an assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Dawkins coined the term meme (analogous to the gene) to describe how Darwinian principles might be extended to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
		Dawkins is a prominent critic of creationism, describing it as a "preposterous, mind-shrinking falsehood".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Dawkins (3953 words)

	The intellectual holocaust in our universities has just begun - OpinionWebDiaristJohnWojdylo - www.smh.com.au
		In their article, not a single mention is made of the devastation wreaked on the humanities, as well as on the pure sciences and mathematics, in the last decade by the cultural revolution led by management ideologues.
		If Dawkins and Kelly truly supported knowledge, they would also support the type of knowledge that cannot be immediately cashed in for the benefit of "national economic performance".
		The statements clearly show that the drastic measures for cutting back public spending in the tertiary sector it implemented have failed to invigorate private sector investment in the tertiary sector, while the value-laden vision imposed in that period of what a university is meant to be is now thoroughly entrenched.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/13/1044927727359.html (7233 words)

	Does Science Point to God? The Intelligent Design Revolution
		The revolution began in the latter half of the 20th century as a result of discoveries in the various sciences that seemed to point to an intelligent being as the cause of nature’s amazing intricacies.
		But again, to say that the ID revolution contradicts the claims of secularized science does not mean that the contradiction arises from some contrariety or conspiracy on the part of ID proponents.
		While Dawkins agrees with Crick that the origin of life is a miracle, by that he means a miracle of chance.
	www.crisismagazine.com /april2003/feature1.htm (4159 words)

	The Brilliant Richard Dawkins (Nitesh Dhanjani)
		This particular talk by Dawkins is full of delightful examples of how nature can be "Queerer Than We Suppose".
		Although Dawkins' TED presentation quite entertaining and enlightening, my respect for the man is because of his ability to ask bold questions to those that are willing to accept religious teachings and ideas by "virtue of blind faith." I highly recommend his "Root of All Evil" documentary now available on YouTube:
		My appreciation for Dawkins is purely towards his concern for the truth, his ability to ask thought provoking questions, and his passion for science.
	www.dhanjani.com /archives/2006/09/the_brilliant_richard_dawkins.html (350 words)

	The Making of a Revolution: Stafford, Tim
		"Dawkins really gives it away when he speaks of universal Darwinism, which is his concept that if life evolved on distant planets on the other side of the universe, it must have evolved by Darwinian means.
		Phillip Johnson's idea of revolution is not, then, a struggle to control one corner of the ivory tower.
		The revolution Phillip Johnson wants would turn those priests back into ordinary people and free all of us to consider the unthinkable a God who can touch our world, and whose mind gave our minds their capacity for truth.
	www.arn.org /johnson/revolution.htm (4143 words)

	evolution
		When zoologist Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene was published 20 years ago, it practically snuffed out many readers' belief in God and in their own importance, for it described in stunning and terrifying detail a world where all life was merely the conveyor belt for the gene.
		Everything we hold most dear--acts of love, altruism, the painterly beauty of the peacock's tail, the birth of a newborn--could, according to Dawkins, be explained by the gene's attempt to survive, and to hitch a ride on the fittest organism possible, the one most likely to mate and reproduce.
		As Dawkins once stated, `Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.' Like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, Dawkins is one of those rare scientists who have captured the popular imagination.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/neimark/evolution.html (3028 words)

	Dawkins: Darwin's Pit Bull, James G. Coors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dawkins on Sept. 22, 2001, at the twenty-fourth annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin.
		Others, however, realized that the Darwinian revolution needed to be taken to the streets rather than be sequestered to the halls of academia.
		I've done it once or twice." So Professor Dawkins is now affectionately known as "Darwin's pit bull." While he can't be here in person, we are still very fortunate that he has prepared a strong and spirited manuscript for our benefit.
	www.ffrf.org /fttoday/2001/oct01/coors.html (555 words)

	Good And Bad Reasons For Believing : Richard Dawkins
		RICHARD DAWKINS is an evolutionary biologist; reader in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University; fellow of New College.
		Since 1976, when his first book, The Selfish Gene, encapsulated both the substance and the spirit of what is now called the sociobiological revolution, he has become widely known, both for the originality of his ideas and for the clarity and elegance with which he expounds them.
		A subsequent book, The Extended Phenotype, and a number of television programs, have extended the notion of the gene as the unit of selection, and have applied it to biological examples as various as the relationship between hosts and parasites and the evolution of cooperation.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/dawkins2.html (3025 words)

	normblog: Dawkins's dogma
		Richard Dawkins is taking a pasting from Terry Eagleton in the LRB (subscription required).
		It was, of course, Marx who coined that last phrase ['opium of the people']; but Marx, who in the same passage describes religion as the 'heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions', was rather more judicious and dialectical in his judgment on it than the lunging, flailing, mispunching Dawkins.
		The mainstream theology I have just outlined may well not be true; but anyone who holds it is in my view to be respected, whereas Dawkins considers that no religious belief, anytime or anywhere, is worthy of any respect whatsoever.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2006/10/dawkinss_dogma.html (227 words)

	Where next for regulation of Australian universities? - On Line Opinion - 1/11/2004
		As Thomas Kuhn argued in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), scientific paradigms survive despite mounting internal contradictions, until a superior replacement is available.
		By requiring a “sustained culture of scholarship”, including the “creation of new knowledge through research” the protocols rule out the kind of teaching-only universities that are common in America, where half of all bachelor students enrol in institutions that do not award doctoral degrees.
		The Dawkins model was invented for a world without the Internet, which allows international universities to operate within Australia without seeking local accreditation.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2698 (1164 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Universe 'too queer' to grasp
		Scientist Professor Richard Dawkins has opened a global conference of big thinkers warning that our Universe may be just "too queer" to understand.
		Professor Dawkins, the renowned Selfish Gene author from Oxford University, said we were living in a "middle world" reality that we have created.
		Professor Dawkins' opening talk, in a session called Meme Power, explored the ways in which humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in; worlds made more complex by ideas such as quantum physics which is beyond most human understanding.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4676751.stm (766 words)

	Intelligent Design the Future: An Interview with David Berlinski: Part One
		But asking someone like Richard Dawkins about the evidence for God’s existence is a little like asking a quadruple amputee to run the marathon.
		Why should Dawkins, of all people, find the universe wonderful if he also believes it is largely a self-sustaining material object, something bigger than a head of cabbage but not appreciably different in kind?
		Tell them that in the future Richard Dawkins is going to conduct a personal invasion of Hell in order to roust the creationists, and The Panda’s Thumb will at once start vibrating with ticket sales.
	www.idthefuture.com /2006/03/an_interview_with_david_berlin.html (3431 words)

	The Frontal Cortex : ID and Dawkins
		I'm no fan of Dawkins' atheistic diatribes - his godless ideology can be just as intemperate as a bad religious sermon - but I think Collins' charge is completely inaccurate.
		To be fair to Dawkins, he is no pan-adaptationist, nor he was, almost certainly, at the time of The Selfish Gene.
		Perhaps you are confusing pan-adaptationism and gene-selectionism, which was indeed championed by Dawkins in TSG.
	scienceblogs.com /cortex/2006/08/id_and_dawkins.php (1039 words)

	the Rindos/UWA Case - the West Australian, Dec 6, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		WA's first female vice-chancellor Fay Gale leaves her job at the University of WA this month having survived everything from former federal treasurer John Dawkins' tertiary revolution to a debilitating illness after being bitten by a nasty North American tick.
		She was a vocal critic of former Labor federal treasurer John Dawkins, whose amalgamation drive turned 77 universities into the present 37, and the former federal education minister Amanda Vanstone, whose changes to student fees and university funding have forced many institutions to take a closer look at future funding options.
		Behind the scenes, Professor Gale's efforts to guide Australia's universities under the AVCC banner were made more difficult after she was bitten in Canada on AVCC business by the insect which carries Lyme disease.
	wings.buffalo.edu /anthropology/Rindos/Press/97-12-06.html (411 words)

	An open letter from biologist Richard Dawkins to Prince Charles'
		By Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University
		A wheat grain is a genetically modified grass seed, just as a pekinese is a genetically modified wolf.
		The large, anonymous crowds in which we now teem began with the agricultural revolution, and without agriculture we could survive in only a tiny fraction of our current numbers.
	www.agbioworld.org /biotech-info/religion/dawkins.html (1261 words)

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