Richard Dawkins
Goodreads Author
Born
in Nairobi, Kenya
Website
Genre
Member Since
June 2008
The God Delusion
147 editions
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2006
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The Selfish Gene
170 editions
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published
1976
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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80 editions
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2009
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
58 editions
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1986
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
70 editions
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published
2004
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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76 editions
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2011
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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
50 editions
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2000
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Climbing Mount Improbable
2 editions
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1996
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
32 editions
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1982
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
74 editions
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1995
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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
― Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Polls
Addendum: Since we only usually get about 11 or so votes each time, I'm going to close this poll and put up a tie-breaker poll for Unbroken and The Ancestor's Tale.
September is now officially a non-fiction month for genre so it's time to vote for our September read. Last day to vote will be Saturday, August 9. (Non-Fiction will no longer be present in our regular monthly genre polls)
There are some really great titles on this list so please do your research before placing your vote. Thanks!
September is now officially a non-fiction month for genre so it's time to vote for our September read. Last day to vote will be Saturday, August 9. (Non-Fiction will no longer be present in our regular monthly genre polls)
There are some really great titles on this list so please do your research before placing your vote. Thanks!
Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
3 votes,
33.3%
The Ancestor's Tale
Richard Dawkins
2 votes,
22.2%
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Harriet Reisen
1 vote,
11.1%
Poe: A Life Cut Short
Peter Ackroyd
1 vote,
11.1%
Starvation Heights
Gregg Olsen
1 vote,
11.1%
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder
Holly Tucker
1 vote,
11.1%
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
0 votes,
0.0%
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
0 votes,
0.0%
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