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Tag: Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins’ Blind Watchmaker

Posted on July 12, 2016 by admin

What is the thesis (the central idea or main point)? Richard Dawkins’ main argument is that the forces of evolution give an illusion of deliberate design, whereas in truth, they were shaped by gradual and random mutations sifted by the filters of natural selection. What are the main arguments made in supporting the thesis? Drawing…

Book review and analysis of the Richard Dawkins chapter in ‘Seeing Further’

Posted on November 23, 2013 by JL Admin

Richard Dawkins has contributed enormously to the general readership’s understanding of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Starting from his seminal first book The Selfish Gene Theory, his writings have come to represent robust scientific logic and high literary quality. His latest contribution toward this end comes in the form of a chapter written…

Outline and review of arguments and controversies generated by Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion:

Posted on July 10, 2012 by JL Admin

Right from the publication of his first major work “The Selfish Gene Theory”, Richard Dawkins is never free of controversy.  While Dawkins is impeccable as a scholar and an academic, most of his detractors are from the religious and conservative sections of the population.  Over the years, Dawkins’ works on evolutionary biology have drawn equally…

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