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Newton's Third Law of Motion — "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"— has a social counterpart, and in the battle between religion and science, it's very much on display today.

Britain’s chief rabbi has accused the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins of relying on an anti-Semitic view of the Bible in his recent book. Speaking at a debate filmed by the BBC earlier this ...

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 416 pages. It was refreshing to see the publication of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion. It is not every day that one of the ...

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 ...

The antireligion wars started by Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris will heat up even more with this salvo from celebrated Oxford biologist Dawkins. For a scientist who criticizes religion for its ...

Last night at the Wortham Center, Progressive Forum Houston presented Richard Dawkins, the British rock-star atheist author. Dawkins is on a book tour promoting his latest work The Greatest Show on ...

‘I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos, and I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense,’ said the British author of ‘The God Delusion.’ Richard ...

Imagine, Richard Dawkins suggests, a world with no religion: “Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian ...

As the pandemic raged in April, churchgoers in Ohio defied warnings not to congregate. Some argued that their religion conferred them immunity from COVID-19. In one memorable CNN clip, a woman ...

Ryan McKay receives funding from the Cogito Foundation, the British Academy and the John Templeton Foundation. Robert Ross receives funding from the John Templeton Foundation and the Australian ...