| Richard Dawkins AKA Clinton Richard Dawkins
Born: 26-Mar-1941 Birthplace: Nairobi, Kenya
Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Biologist, Philosopher, Zoologist Nationality: England Executive summary: Zoologist and evolutionary biologist Zoologist, evolutionary biologist. Was introduced to his wife by Douglas Adams. At age 9 Dawkins discovered the Argument from Design as proof of God and became deeply religious. At age 16 he decided Darwinism was a better explanation for design and converted to atheism. Father: Clinton John Dawkins Mother: Jean Mary Vyvyan Ladner Wife: Marian Stamp (m. 19-Aug-1967, div. 1984) Wife: Eve Barham (m. 1-Jun-1984, div., d.) Daughter: Juliet Wife: Lalla Ward (actress, m. 1992)
High School: Oundle School, Peterborough, England (1959) University: BA Zoology, Oxford University (1962) University: PhD, Oxford University Professor: UC Berkeley (1967-69) Professor: Oxford University
British Humanist Association CSICOP Fellow International Academy of Humanism Laureate National Secular Society Honorary Associate Royal Society 2001 Secular Coalition for America Advisory Board Secular Student Alliance Academic Advisory Board World Technology Network Faraday Prize 1990 Humanist of the Year 1996 The Third Culture Converted to Atheism formerly Anglican
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (18-Apr-2008) Himself The God Who Wasn't There (21-May-2005) Himself
Official Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~dawkins/
Author of books:
The Selfish Gene (1976) The Extended Phenotype (1982) The Blind Watchmaker (1986) River out of Eden (1995) Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) A Devil's Chaplain (2003) The Ancestor's Tale (2004) The God Delusion (2006)
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