14th May 2008 : On February 10, 1999, The Guardian-Dillons Debate at the Westminster Central Hall in London featured Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker in an event chaired by Tim Radford, Science Editor of The Guardian. Sold out weeks in advance, the evening attracted 2,300 attendees, with hundreds waiting outside. It was one of the toughest tickets in London in years.

13th May 2008 : Richard Dawkins answers a few brief questions about Einstein on BBC Radio Scotland.

11th May 2008 : Richard Dawkins pointed out that nature is Darwinian and dominated by the short-term greediness that is required within competitive ecosystems to pass on one's genes. Humans are no different and are dominated by those instincts, but with our complex brain-power we have the ability to rise above these destructive tendencies and be a good steward to the planet and ourselves.

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4th May 2008 : On April 29th, 2008, Richard Dawkins was interviewed by Fanny Kiefer on Vancouver, BC's Shaw TV.

30th Apr 2008 : The Bill Good Show CKNW News Talk Radio AM980

20th Apr 2008 : On 18th April, the day Ben Stein's infamous film was released, Michael Shermer received the following letter from a Jew, whose identity I shall conceal as "David J".

19th Apr 2008 : Skepticality interviews Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer.

18th Apr 2008 : If we were visited by aliens from a distant planet, would we fall on our knees and worship them as gods? The difficulty of getting here from even our nearest neighbor, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, constitutes a filter through which only beings with a technology so advanced as to be god-like (from our point of view) could pass.

14th Apr 2008 : (From Chapter 9 of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins)

8th Apr 2008 : Richard Dawkins was joined by his wife Lalla Ward at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival to talk about the books that inspire him and shape his thinking.

23rd Mar 2008 : The blogs are ringing with ridicule. Mark Mathis, duplicitous producer of the much hyped film Expelled, shot himself in the foot so spectacularly that the phrase might have been invented for him.

21st Mar 2008 : This is a short clip from an upcoming discussion between PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins. I thought I should post the relevant piece about the film Expelled today.

15th Mar 2008 : Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.

14th Mar 2008 : Richard Dawkins was the guest on Alan Colmes' Fox Radio show Thursday, March 13th. This audio file contains comercials, I'll try and upload a commercial-free version soon.

6th Mar 2008 : I have been taken aback by the inexplicable hostility of Mary Midgley's assault.1 Some colleagues have advised me that such transparent spite is best ignored, but others warn that the venomous tone of her article may conceal the errors in its content. Indeed, we are in danger of assuming that nobody would dare to be so rude without taking the elementary precaution of being right in what she said. We may even bend over backwards to concede some of her points, simply in order to appear fair-minded when we deplore the way she made them. I deplore bad manners as strongly as anyone, but more importantly I shall show that Midgley has no good point to make. She seems not to understand biology or the way biologists use language. No doubt my ignorance would be just as obvious if I rushed headlong into her field of expertise, but I would then adopt a more diffident tone. As it is we are both in my corner, and it is hard for me not to regard the gloves as off. I will try to make my reply constructive, in the hope that it may interest those who have not read Midgley's article, as well as those who have. Unattributed quotations with page numbers will all be taken from her article. Since it was my book, The SelJish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), which stimulated her attack, it will also be necessary for me to quote from it. I shall divide my reply into eight sections.

27th Feb 2008 : Richard Dawkins was on this morning's show with Joy Cardin on WPR.

26th Feb 2008 :

24th Feb 2008 : This isn't "Part 2" in our 3-part tales videos, but this is a youtube video created by RodHullIAmHim for an actual section in The Ancestor's Tale, called "The Salamander's Tale". The audio is from the audiobook version, read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward.

24th Feb 2008 : Richard Dawkins joins Mariella Frostrup to reveal the part that fiction plays in his life, and chooses five of his favourite books.

21st Feb 2008 : A guide at the Natural History Museum stated confidently that a particular dinosaur was 70,000,008 years old. When asked how he could be so precise he replied, "Well it was 70 million when I started this job, and that was eight years ago." The evident experience of Valentina Cruz, our wonderful Galápagos naturalist guide, suggests that I must add a similar margin to the estimate of 100 years that she gave us for the age of the black lava fields on the island of Santiago. The exact date of the great Santiago eruption is not recorded, but it definitely happened on one particular day in one particular year around 1900. I shall call it SV day (Santiago volcano day). I need to seem as precise as the museum guide, although the exact date doesn't matter. Perhaps it was January 19 1897, 100 plus eight years before my visit to the island.

20th Feb 2008 : Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter sit down for a discussion at Digital Life Design 2008. John Brockman moderates.

14th Feb 2008 : Stephen Moss introduces a debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting.

11th Feb 2008 : The University of Oxford has advertised the Charles Simonyi Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science. I retire from the Chair in September 2008. The advertisement can be seen at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/wd9-018.shtml

8th Feb 2008 : Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species changed the world. Here Richard Dawkins introduces a 34-page celebration of the book and its author, available FREE with tomorrow's edition of the Guardian

30th Jan 2008 :

29th Jan 2008 : Nicky Campbell and Sonia Deol host a series of moral, ethical and religious debates on topical issues live from Oxford. On the panel are former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, Professor Richard Dawkins, Ann Widdecombe MP and Jonathan Bartley, joined by special guest John Barrowman.

29th Jan 2008 : Richard Dawkins discusses the role of religion in schools with other panel members on The Big Debate.

14th Jan 2008 : George Scales, a gallant former naval officer and highly successful farmer and businessman, has become, in his mid eighties, one of RDFRS's most generous benefactors. He has no urge towards self-glorification and would be content for his generosity to be quietly appreciated rather than ostentatiously publicized. I have of course expressed my gratitude to him privately. The opportunity to do so publicly, and in a way I am assured by one of his closest friends he would not mind, arises because he has unfortunately fallen into ill-health. His eyesight has deteriorated so that he can hardly see, and his back is collapsing so that he can hardly walk. He is going to have an operation, but before they could do that to an 86-year-old man they had to fit a heart pacemaker. This has just been done, and George is now awaiting the operation, and badly in need of cheering up.

10th Jan 2008 : This week's New Scientist has an article by Daniele Fanelli announcing an apparent change of mind by E O Wilson. This has been picked up by the Daily Telegraph under the headline Scientist renounces insect 'kin selection' theory and by the Independent under the headline Evolutionists at war over altruism's origins . New Scientist asked me to reply, but they gave me a very tight limit of 650 words. I decided that I could fit into this limit only with references to other publications, and I took great care to upload those publications to the web, and asked New Scientist to publish the url:

9th Jan 2008 : This is probably too expensive for most people, but maybe it's something to recommend for university or local libraries?

1st Jan 2008 : When a politician changes his mind, he is a 'flip-flopper.' Politicians will do almost anything to disown the virtue – as some of us might see it – of flexibility.

15th Dec 2007 : December 25th is a date to celebrate not because it is the disputed birthday of the "son of God" but because it is the actual birthday of one of the world's greatest men

14th Dec 2007 : On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.

29th Nov 2007 : This is the extended version of the Allan Gregg interview from a few weeks back.

29th Nov 2007 : "Is sex outside of marriage a sin? Is it a public matter? Is it forgivable?"

13th Nov 2007 : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is proud to announce that it is now offering Richard Dawkins' 1991 Royal Institution Lectures for Children titled "Growing Up in the Universe" free online!

24th Oct 2007 : Video from the AAI 07 conference.

15th Oct 2007 : Dan Dennett receives the "Richard Dawkins Award" at the AAI 07 conference in Washington, D.C. Julia Sweeney introduces Richard Dawkins, who introduces Dan Dennett.

14th Oct 2007 : Video of Richard Dawkins accepting the prize.

7th Oct 2007 : Speech in honour of Dan Dennett, presenting him with the Richard Dawkins Award for 2007 at the Crystal City conference of the Atheist Alliance International

6th Oct 2007 :

4th Oct 2007 : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science presents Andy Thomson's lecture titled "We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers." This video was taken at the AAI 2007 conference in Washington, D.C.

4th Oct 2007 : The debate features Professor Richard Dawkins, Fellow of the Royal Society and Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and Dr. John Lennox (MA, MA, Ph.D., D.Phil., D.Sc.), Reader in Mathematics and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Green College, University of Oxford.

2nd Oct 2007 : Nobody is suggesting that all religious people are violent, intolerant, racist, bigoted, contemptuous of women and so on.

1st Oct 2007 : Sir: Professor Richard Bowen thinks I should engage with serious academic theologians rather than the fundamentalist "McDonald's" version of Christianity. He and the Rev Richard Hall (Letters, 19 September) agree with Peter Stanford ("Doubts about Dawkins", 14 September) that I should read theology.

23rd Sep 2007 : Richard Dawkins - 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture. Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder.

20th Sep 2007 : The US branch of RDFRS is officially deemed to have come into existence on 20th April 2006, which is the date it came into existence as a company, and long before it was approved as a charity. This means that any US taxpayer who has ever donated money to RDFRS is entitled to apply to the IRS for a tax refund.

17th Sep 2007 : Sir: Peter Stanford ("Doubts about Dawkins", 14 September) writes that the recent books by Christopher Hitchens and myself "deserve a decent response. But how to fashion it?" A decent start would be to read them.

14th Sep 2007 : After more than a year of expensive negotiation, we are delighted to announce that both the US and the UK versions of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science have been granted charitable, tax-exempt status in their respective countries.

6th Sep 2007 : To prepare for my BBC Radio 4 discussion with John Cornwell
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/, I read Cornwell's book Darwin's Angel: an angelic response to The God Delusion
(http://richarddawkins.net/article,1595,The-Flea-Circus-moves-to-your-iPod,RichardDawkinsnet). I'm not going to write a proper review of the book, but it set me thinking again about a common phenomenon, which I am finding increasingly irksome.

6th Sep 2007 : There is much fluttering in the dovecots of the deluded, and Christopher Hitchens is one of those responsible. Another is the philosopher A. C. Grayling. I recently shared a platform with both. We were to debate against a trio of, as it turned out, rather half-hearted religious apologists ("Of course I don't believe in a God with a long white beard, but . . .").

13th Aug 2007 : Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Steve Wright about his new television documentary "The Enemies of Reason."

12th Aug 2007 : Richard Dawkins appears on Richard & Judy to discuss his new television program "The Enemies of Reason."

5th Aug 2007 : The theory of evolution is the flashpoint in the war between science and religion. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe the Biblical story of creation. Only a quarter accept evolution. And that's infuriated a lot of people. The philosopher Daniel Dennett thinks we need to "break the spell" of religion. But creationist Paul Nelson says evolution simply can't explain certain mysteries.

4th Aug 2007 : On evening of 9th July 2007, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation keynote event was held at London's Natural History Museum. Featuring Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, Lewis Wolpert and chaired by Peter Bentley, a discussion on evolution and complexity took place in front of an audience of 600 people. On this page you can listen to the discussion and take a look at some of the photos of the event.

2nd Aug 2007 : Wold Book Club interview on The Selfish Gene.

30th Jul 2007 : In the dark days of 1940, the pre-Vichy French government was warned by its generals "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." After the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill growled his response: "Some chicken; some neck!" Today, the bestselling books of 'The New Atheism' are disparaged, by those who desperately wish to downplay their impact, as "Only preaching to the choir."

Some choir! Only?!

24th Jul 2007 : In a HardTalk inteview first broadcast on 24 July 2007, Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Richard Dawkins.

11th Jul 2007 : In his Skeptic article entitled "Why Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Religion" (initially published online in eSkeptic, July 4th 2007), David Sloan Wilson writes:

When Dawkins' The God Delusion was published I naturally assumed that he was basing his critique of religion on the scientific study of religion from an evolutionary perspective. I regret to report otherwise.

30th Jun 2007 : I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe's second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him.

28th Jun 2007 : On the deck of the Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands, Richard Dawkins takes a minute to talk about Darwin and his historic visit to the Galapagos Islands.

28th Jun 2007 : Richard Dawkins gives an overview of sex ratio theory and sexual selection using examples found in the Galapagos. Q&A is mixed-in near the end.

27th Jun 2007 : Richard Dawkins gave this lecture on Neo-Darwinism during a recent trip to the Galapagos.

20th Jun 2007 : Controversial author and world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins joined Leslie Roberts in studio to discuss his book "The God Delusion" and why God doesn't exist.

19th Jun 2007 : Consider these signs: Creationist science museums opening in Kentucky and Alberta … a Broadway revival of a play about the 1925 Scopes evolution teaching scandal, current school boards debating whether evolution and intelligent design should be taught together in science classes...you could say Darwin hasn't been so newsworthy since Queen Victoria was on the throne.

19th Jun 2007 : Professor of the Public Understanding of Science @ Oxford University, Author of "The God Delusion". In his book, Professor Dawkins contends that belief in a supernatural creator qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.

19th Jun 2007 : During a recent trip to the Galapagos with the Center for Inquiry, Richard Dawkins gave a reading of his new preface to the paperback edition of The God Delusion. This video is of the reading, and a separate video (coming soon!) will have the Q&A session that followed.

19th Jun 2007 : Focus magazine has included a bit of the interview from their magazine with Richard in the July edition of their podcast.

11th Jun 2007 : Interview with Richard Dawkins on BBC's Science Extra.

8th Jun 2007 : A short questionnaire with Richard Dawkins.

2nd Jun 2007 : Richard Dawkins, the author of the NY Times bestseller - The God Delusion - has been interviewed many a time recently. The questions asked were mainly related to his book, the views on atheism, morality and present world.

He answered all questions in a flawless and confident way. Each and every answer speaks about his passion and eagerness to explain his stance on every point. It's an amazing experience to watch him speak. I have tried to pick up a few commonly asked questions and his answers on different topics.

29th May 2007 : Another short interview of Richard Dawkins from the Hay Festival.

27th May 2007 : It's been a time of nonstop travel. I had a long-standing engagement to lecture on a Galapagos cruise ship, but the trip grew and grew. Time Magazine invited me to New York for a posh celebration, and I built the diversion into my route to Galapagos. Then I was offered an unexpected lift to New York in the private jet of the entrepreneur Elon Musk, en route to Los Angeles.

14th May 2007 : It sounds so reasonable, doesn't it? Such a modest proposal. Why not teach "both sides" and let the children decide for themselves? As President Bush said, "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes." At first hearing, everything about the phrase "both sides" warms the hearts of educators like ourselves.

14th May 2007 : The hardback God Delusion was hailed as the surprise bestseller of 2006. While it was warmly received by most of the 1,000-plus individuals who volunteered personal reviews to Amazon, paid print reviewers gave less uniform approval.

14th May 2007 : A segment from 20/20 on atheism in America. It includes a short inteview with Richard.

11th May 2007 : A debate on TV Ontario with Richard Dawkins.

8th May 2007 : Richard Dawkins is an outspoken atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic. He thinks church is 'absurd' and has to do more with morals than religion. His recent book, 'The God Delusion,' was prostested and critized by religious leaders the world over. To him, the Bible is fiction, faith is a virus and God is no different from the tooth fairy.

7th May 2007 : Richard Dawkins discusses a taboo topic in his new book 'The God Delusion.'

1st May 2007 : The session was titled "The Design of Life," and the TED audience was probably expecting remarks about evolution's role in our history from biologist Richard Dawkins. Instead, he launched into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education.

30th Apr 2007 : Richard Dawkins believes science's ability to admit ignorance is one of its greatest strengths. On the flip side, he proposes that faith remains arrogant and all too certain of its validity without any rational set of proofs.

23rd Apr 2007 : "Darwin's Rottweiler"
Oxford University biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins discusses why he thinks religion fuels war, encourages bigotry, and quashes children's intellectual development.

19th Apr 2007 : Bishop Harries and Richard Dawkins have collaborated on several occasions to promote the proper teaching of science in UK classrooms. This is the full unedited interview, which was originally filmed by IWC for the Channel Four documentary 'Root or All Evil?'

10th Apr 2007 : In London's Westminster Central Hall on March 27, some 2,000 people turned out to hear Hitchens, Dawkins and philosopher A.C. Grayling debate a trio of religious authorities on the question "We'd be better off without Religion." (The motion carried, 1,205 to 778.)

2nd Apr 2007 : The Selfish Green was the opening event of Wildscreen 2004, a landmark debate on the future of conservation led by Jonathan Dimbleby with Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins, Dr Jane Goodall and Dr Richard Leakey.

2nd Apr 2007 : Growing Up in the Universe 2-Disc DVD Set: Order your copy now!

1st Apr 2007 : Richard Dawkins' review of Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.

29th Mar 2007 : Fresh Air from WHYY, March 28, 2007 · In his most recent book, British scientist Richard Dawkins writes about the irrationality of a belief in God, examines God in all his forms and sets down his arguments for atheism. The book is The God Delusion.

28th Mar 2007 : Are science and religion converging? No.

There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who call themselves atheists. Ursula Goodenough's lyrical book, The Sacred Depths of Nature, is sold as a religious book, is endorsed by theologians on the back cover, and its chapters are liberally laced with prayers and devotional meditations.

27th Mar 2007 : Does religious belief damage the health of a society, or is it necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society? Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion in discussion with Professor Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford Univ, chaired by Joan Bakewell

15th Mar 2007 : Randi and Dawkins discuss the perinormal and paranormal. This is only a brief clip of the conversation from the Amazing Meeting (January 2005) put on by the James Randi Educational Foundation.

12th Mar 2007 : The 1986 Oxford Union Debate between evolutionists Richard Dawkins and John Maynard Smith (Professor of Biology, University of Sussex) and creationists A. E. Wilder-Smith (Professor of Pharmacology and consultant) and Edgar Andrews (Materials Scientist & President of the Biblical Creation Society).

10th Mar 2007 : I am distressed to find myself reported as participating in a "literary spat", and as "pouring scorn" on an individual, comedian Peter Kay, for whom I actually feel nothing but goodwill (Heard the one about the atheist who scorned a comedian for his belief in a comforting God? March 8).

8th Mar 2007 : On Friday 9th March 2007, P Z Myers turns 50. I have written the following little verse in his honour.

27th Feb 2007 : BBC interview of Richard Dawkins by William Crawley on February 20, 2007.

13th Feb 2007 : The British Edition of Sam's book is to be published in the week beginning 11th Feb 2007, and the publishers have given us permission to post an advance copy of the Foreword now. My brief was to introduce to British readers a book that was originally intended for an American audience.

12th Feb 2007 : Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Paula Zahn on CNN.

11th Feb 2007 : Sir, Alister McGrath (Faith, Feb 10) has now published two books with my name in the title. If I seem "grumpy", could it be because a professor of theology is building a career riding on my back?

30th Jan 2007 : Richard Dawkins is interviewed by Charlie Rose about Unweaving the Rainbow.