In addition to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, Carroll brought together Richard Dawkins, Daniel C.
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Some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins (author of "The God Delusion"), argue that we did not.
Richard Dawkins and Rowan Williams are to discuss the role of religion at a Cambridge Union debate.
The 14 professors involved include biologist Richard Dawkins and historian Sir David Cannadine.
During a interview with atheist author Richard Dawkins, the presenter also used the term "religious hogwash" when introducing the story of Genesis.
The campaign, which will also feature on the Tube, is backed by the British Humanist Association and prominent atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins.
He has often been challenged by biologists and ethologists, notably Richard Dawkins, who are more impressed by selection's adaptiveness than its conservatism.
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The survey was conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), which describes itself as promoting "scientific education, rationalism and humanism".
The author and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins described him as the "finest orator of our time" and a "valiant fighter against all tyrants including God".
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He also mentioned the atheist Professor Richard Dawkins, whose comments about the Earth's diversity Dr Williams said reflected the feeling of the Spanish saint, St John.
Over the past eight years, authors such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens have attacked religion in bestselling books, appealing to logic and science.
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Yet an internet-led campaign for change has gained thousands of signatures, plus support from Richard Dawkins, a prominent science writer, and Lord Rees, the head of the Royal Society.
In America, the so-called new atheists--most prominently Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins--don't need to think twice about ridiculing religious beliefs or savaging the most powerful priest or pastor.
This week, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Prof Higgs criticised fellow academic - and staunch atheist - Richard Dawkins for his stance towards religious believers.
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Such musings led him into further conflict with orthodox neo-Darwinians, led by an equally skilful writer in the shape of Richard Dawkins an Oxford man, and an exponent of effortless superiority if ever there was one.
The festival takes place in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday and Thursday and will include a debate on the relationship between science and religion between Professor Richard Dawkins and the country's Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.
Paddy Power says it has also drawn 20 bets at 1, 000-1 that U2 singer Bono will be the next pope, and another five on Richard Dawkins, the famously outspoken atheist and scientist, at an ominous 666-1.
The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.
With his latest book "The God Delusion" currently sitting comfortably among Amazon.com's top sellers and on both the New York Times and the UK's Sunday Times bestseller lists, Richard Dawkins will no doubt appreciate the irony of friends and families exchanging copies on Christmas Day.
Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are in the new vanguard of authors articulating atheism (Mr Harris thinks that people who are more moderate in their religion still do harm through a religious habit of mind that is no less irrational than fundamentalism).
In response, Professor Richard Dawkins, a high profile atheist, was asked to broadcast an alternative Thought for the Day , but his thought - that "we have been born and we are going to die, but before we die we have time to understand why we were born" - was broadcast in a different slot on the programme.
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