1. American Humanist Association, Maggie Ardiente: Happy Birthday from Washington, DC

From all of us at the American Humanist Association, we would like to wish
Dr. Dawkins a happy birthday!

2. Anthony Corley: Happy Birthday from Texas, USA

Richard,
Love your books and videos. Come on down to Texas next time you are in the US. Happy Birthday!
Anthony

3. Barbara Finn: Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!



from Barbara Finn

4. brian cornes: Happy Birthday

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5. Brian Hunt: Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Richard! I wish you many, many, many more. Thanks for fighting for truth and reason.
- Brian

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6. Chris Challans: Happy Birthday

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Hello Professor Dawkins. First of all, I would like to wish you a VERY happy birthday. I am a 19 year-old college student from Leavenworth, Kansas. And I've got to tell you...being trapped in the bible belt of the USA, your work has been such a breath of fresh air. To my father, as well. You and Sam Harris really are leading what could very well be the most important struggle in human history thus far. Through your writing, I've come to understand biological evolution a lot better, and I've been buying and sending copies of The God Delusion to various friends of mine. Thank you for everything that you've done throughout your career; teaching evolution in a widely public forum (though I have to say, most people here in Kansas haven't got a CLUE), and especially the religion project you've been pursuing recently. So...along with wishing you a happy birthday, I would like you to know that you have had a tremendous impact on my life. Don't ever stop!

I'm also a local poet/musician. I have one here that I think you will enjoy =D...

"Religious mentality, constantly abused in its vice
Following the word of a fictional God, as diluted by the views of the scribes
Nooses disguised as necklaces on which a crucifix lies
The youth is enticed, so safe and secure
But really losing their eyes, exchanged for a sense of belief
And they say 'of course faith can turn into war,
But you're ignoring all the times when it ends up as peace"
No I'm not. It's just that the means are more important than the ends you achieve.
Dogma breeds altruism and sadism alike
The direction it goes is determined merely by the shaking of the dice
And I've never been a gambler, so I go through it logically
Better to determine right and wrong through reasoned moral philosophy
It's fool-proof, and all it needs is a wealth
Of people who are simply willing to think for themself

Thank you Richard Dawkins,
For teaching the sheep to leave the fold Every success counts, even though most of them won't listen
Sincerely,
One of those hell-bound atheists who walk in Jesus' footsteps closer than most Christians"

Thank you. Very, very much. And I wish you your best birthday yet!

Sincerely, Chris Challans

7. Chris Street: Happy Birthday from Ringwood, Hampshire, England

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8. David Sampson: Happy Birthday from Botswana

Hi Richard. Happy Birthday man. Cheers for the groovey books. That is my pet spider Skippy, in our garden in Botswana, he/ she says Have a good one too.

David Sampson

9. David Schey: Happy Birthday from Golden, Colorado

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10. Debra Gavant: Happy Birthday from Atlanta, Georgia

Please add me to the long list of people who think you are interesting, intelligent, articulate, fascinating and sexy.

11. Dr. Lydia Hartunian: Happy Birthday

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12. Evan: Happy Birthday from Ithaca, New York

Hey again Richard,

Hope you remember me from your convert corner. Just wanted to send you a Happy Birthday from the States. Hope everything is well. I made you a picture but it wasn't in time so I popped a link to it in here. Best wishes!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/Palmer7890/100_0743copy.jpg

Enjoy!

Sincerely,
Evan Palmer

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13. Hillery Metz: Happy Birthday

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14. Juliet Green: Happy Birthday

15. Ken and Doris Herrick: Happy Birthday

Greetings and much appreciation from Ken Herrick!

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16. Kurt Lundkvist: Happy Birthday from Sweden

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Dear Mr Dawkins,

Thank you for all hte joy and excitement that your books have given me during all these years.

I hope that you will find the time and energy to continue your fight against all the ignorance and superstition we still have in our world today.

With great admiration,
Kurt Lundkvist
(Sweden)

17. Luis Guillermo Restrepo Rivas: Happy Birthday from Medellín, Colombia

18. Lyn Prestwood: Happy Birthday from Scotland

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19. Mary E. Hook-Goranson: Happy Birthday from Cancun

Here is a photo of me with a friend in Cancun last November. Check out my reading material on the beach chair!

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20. Michael Shermer: Happy Birthday from Pasadena, CA

Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer visit the 100-inch telescope atop Mt. Wilson in the San Gabriel mountains just above Pasadena, California. This is the telescope through which Edwin Hubble discovered that those fuzzy little patches in the Milky Way Galaxy--so called nebulae--were, in fact, galaxies that are very far away. He later discovered that most of them are moving away from us--shifted toward the red end of the spectrum--and therefore the universe is expanding. I'll never forget Richard's comment he made as we were standing beneath the magnificent dome housing the 100-inch telescope, and reflecting on how marvelous, even miraculous, this vision of the cosmos and our place in it all seemed: "All of this makes me so proud of our species that I am almost moved to tears."

So on the occasion of your birthday, Richard, please accept my good wishes and thanks for giving science its soul.

Michael Shermer
Skeptics Society
Scientific American

21. Michele Perko: Happy Birthday from Wyoming, USA

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22. Nancy Werstler: Happy Birthday from Texas, USA

Richard,
I have all your books and have read most of them, still working on the rest. My favorite so far is Unweaving the Rainbow. Love your videos too. I have given away several copies of The God Delusion and have two converts so far. Hope you visit Texas soon. We sure need it. Happy Birthday!
Nancy

23. Patricia Estrada: Happy Birthday from USA

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24. Paul Cooper: Happy Birthday from Clare, Suffolk, England

Very Best Wishes on your birthday from all in the band of Jurassic Rock - www.jurassicrock.co.uk. The reading of The God Delusion is compulsory for all band members, and, with a name like ours, we can't be accused of believing in creationism -it takes a a good few million years to evolve great rock n roll!!
Paul Cooper and the rest of the band.

25. Peter Martin: Happy Birthday

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Over the years, book after book of yours has inspired, enthralled, amused and just plain gobsmacked me. If it hadn't been for The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and their equally potent shelfmates, I would have missed out on - well, what else? - "live, the universe and everything". Doesn't bear thinking about. More power to that writing hand for years to come.

Thanks,
Peter

26. Prem Dhanesh: Happy Birthday from Prem in Oregon

Richard,

You are the defacto Commandant of the Marine Corps of Science.

Semper scisco! (Always investigate!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Prem in Oregon

hikingprem@yahoo.com

27. Rik: Happy Birthday

"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence"
- Bertrand Russell

Happy birthday, Richard!! Long May you keep making 'em sit up and listen.

Rik

28. Sajit.C, Science Trust: Happy Birthday from India

Sir,
Birth day wishes from Science Trust, Calicut,Kerala,India.
Regards
Sajit.C
Science Trust
India

29. Sean Bison: Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. DAWKINS!!! YOU ROCK!

30. Tiana: Happy Birthday from Tiawan

31. Victoria Le: Happy Birthday from San Antonio, Texas USA

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32. W. H. Young: Happy Birthday from Tulsa, OK USA

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Throwing in this Ted Haggard head composite I made. You can decide what, if anything, to do with it. One of the first times I saw RD was in Root of All Evil? and his interview with Haggard.



Yours to do with what you like.

33. Warren Shackleton: Happy Birthday from Cape Town

Dear Richard,

At the moment, Cape Town, South Africa, is collapsing under a deluge of religious folly. While the intellectuals sleep the 'righteous' fleece their flocks. Please come to Cape Town and help us in the battle for what is true.

My wish for your birthday is that the scales will fall from the eyes of a severely deluded Cape Town and also of course the world. Thank you so much for what you have already done, Best Wishes and every good thing on your birthday.

Warmest Regards,
Warren Shackleton

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34. Åsa Johansson: Happy Birthday from Sweden