A lecture by Richard Dawkins extracted from The Nullifidian (Dec 94).

Richard Dawkins, well-known for his books on evolution, took part in a debate with the Archbishop of York, Dr John Habgood, on the existence of God at the Edinburgh science festival last Easter. [Easter ‘92 ed.] The science correspondent of The Observer reported that the “withering” Richard Dawkins clearly believed the “God should be spoken of in the same way as Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy”. He [the correspondent] overheard a gloomy cleric comment on the debate: “That was easy to sum up. Lions 10, Christians nil”.

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The 1996 Humanist of the Year asked this question in a speech accepting the honor from the American Humanist Association.

Response to video where he appears to be stumped by a creationist’s question

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Richard Dawkins is Oxford’s Professor of Public Understanding of Science. He is the author of The Blind Watchmaker (on which this article is partly based) and Climbing Mount Improbable. He is a Senior Editor of Free Inquiry.

Francis Crick is Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, USA. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA.

The Rational Habit Of Mind Is A Rare One

Commissioned by, but never published in, Illustrated Magazine, in 1952

A Plea For Tolerance In The Face Of New Dogmas

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?

Introductory note: Russell delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall. Published in pamphlet form in that same year, the essay subsequently achieved new fame with Paul Edwards’ edition of Russell’s book, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays ... (1957).

Kuwaiti Professor Abdallah Nafisi Suggests a Biological Attack at the White House and Prays for the Bombing of a Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan.

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Doug Stanhope lets us know that it’s important to get religious education early.

Tim Michin performs a song he wrote for a religious friend he respects.

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