The enduring value of The God Delusion lies in its championing of reasoning and evidence, free speech and thinking for ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Dawkins published his international best-seller The God Delusion, thus establishing “New Atheism” as a major cultural force. Over the ensuing decade, other authors – such as ...

GO TO ANY bookshop, and its shelves will be groaning with works of popular science: titles promising to explain black holes, white holes, the brain or the gut to the uninitiated. Yet the notion that a ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says artificial intelligence is already displaying remarkable intellectual capabilities, raising difficult questions about machine consciousness, human obsolesce ...

I am reminded of the program called Biomorphs that Richard Dawkins created in The Blind Watchmaker.It starts with a simple, ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who gained fame for his books about atheism and evolution, praised Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling for challenging Scotland’s new hate speech law. Dawkins, who ...

A famous atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explained he identifies as a "cultural Christian" in an interview after learning Ramadan lights were hung on a street in the UK as opposed ...

Evolutionary biologist and atheist writer Richard Dawkins has stirred debate over artificial intelligence after saying recent conversations with AI chatbots left him convinced they may possess some ...

The core of "The Selfish Gene" (1976, Japanese edition published by Kinokuniya Company) lies in a shift of perspective regarding the unit of evolution. Gene-centered view of evolutionWhat Dawkins dire ...

Richard Dawkins, photographed for The Telegraph at the Oxford University Press offices - Andrew Crowley The biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins made his name with his 1976 book The Selfish ...

Notable thinkers keep telling us they think A.I. is conscious. That doesn’t mean it’s true. By Leif Weatherby What are the implications of artificial intelligence for religion? By Ross Douthat The ...