What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the whale. And did you know that there are more individual water-fleas – which ...

In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put ...

NEW YORK — Richard Dawkins stands among the world's pre-eminent evolutionary biologists. His books, including The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype, shook and stirred the way we think about ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is the best-selling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. His newest book, An Appetite for Wonder, is the first volume of what will be a two-part ...

He may be the most controversial atheist on the planet today, but there was once a time when Richard Dawkins was a respectable, churchgoing Christian. In his 1976 best-selling debut book, The Selfish ...

A Corte Madera bookstore has stepped up to host an event with evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins just days after Berkeley public radio station KPFA abruptly canceled a similar event, ...

The strenuous efforts of Richard Dawkins, renowned scientist, author of The God Delusion, and crusader for atheism, may be backfiring — sending inquiring minds to Christ instead. So write two fellow ...

Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859. Its basic idea--that life evolved by survival of the fittest through natural selection--has long been accepted as scientific fact. And yet, ...

With beautiful illustrations by graphic artist Dave McKean, Dawkins' volume is as accessible as it is illuminating, covering a remarkable spectrum of subjects and natural phenomena -- from who the ...

Richard Dawkins is the bestselling author of such books as "The Selfish Gene," "The God Delusion" and "Unweaving the Rainbow." The British scientist will appear in “An Evening with Richard Dawkins and ...

On Tuesday, famed evolutionary scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins' new book — a memoir called An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist — will be published here in the United States. (It ...

A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery. By Ross Douthat Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of ...