Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.
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Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whol...
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Documentary written and presented by scientist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those a...
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Two scientists return to the Oxford Museum of Natural History, the famed site of the 1860 Evolution ...
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A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater socie...
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Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and...
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Modern farms are struggling to keep a secret. Most of the animals used for food in the United States...
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In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would ...
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Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun,...
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A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditio...
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intersect (2020) | Q42 / Computer | 8 | |
| 2 | Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017) | Self | 7 | |
| 3 | Beware the Slenderman (2016) | Self | 6.4 | |
| 4 | The Atheist Delusion (2016) | Self (archive footage) | - | - |
| 5 | The Unbelievers (2013) | Self | - | - |
| 6 | Speciesism: The Movie (2013) | Self | 10 | |
| 7 | The Future Is Now! (2011) | The Scientist | - | - |
| 8 | Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God? (2009) | Self | - | - |
| 9 | The Enemies of Reason (2007) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 10 | The God Who Wasn't There (2005) | Self | 7 |

