Richard Dawkins -

British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized

the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy. (Pallardy,
Richard Dawkins was an avid atheist who has and continues to spend most of his life
perpetuating his atheistic ideology. He has put considerable energy into rectifying common
misunderstanding about what Darwinism actually entails. Dawkins took care to point out that
intricate structures such as the eye do not manifest randomly but instead successively increase
in sophistication. (Pallardy, Richard). Dawkins wrote many books, but not many of them
created as much of a response as The God Delusion. This book was written in 2006 and
perpetuated the idea that science should be valued above religion. In recent years Dawkins has
engaged on speaking tours with several other big name atheist to promote and explain the
secular worldview that God doesnt exist and science is the only plausible means we have to
explain why the world is the way that it is. Dawkins has taken advantage of the progressing age
by utilizing Youtube, websites and media campaigns that promote his ideas. Dawkins has
created a unique cultural predicament with his staunch views of theists and secularism. He is
recorded saying in The God Delusion, in regards to the God figure that it is arguably the most
unpleasant character in 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 anger that Dawkins has toward the idea and character of God that is portrayed in
the Bible has created a unique culture where reconciliation isnt possible. Dawkins has and
probably will continue to make a huge impact in the world of secularism as well as posing the
problem of reconciliation for the theist community.
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