Documents relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein include the names of a number of Oxford University and Oxfordshire ...

In his book, “The War on Science,” Lawrence Krause (Dawkins’ colleague in the “New Atheism” movement) has Dawkins’ chapter “Scientific Truth Stands Above Human Feelings and Politics.” He stated that ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

A religious quest can still be a rational undertaking — not a leap into pure mystery. By Ross Douthat Fear that culture will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence is not an overestimation of ...

For many years, I believed I was a hardcore atheist. I came out about this soon after my father, a theologian trained at the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, died. At that time, around ...

After receiving a bit of response to last week’s entry in this series, I decided to do a follow-up that delves a little into the subject of atheism. An atheist is defined as “a person who does not ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of genes ...

Regarding the op-ed “Famous atheist’s pivot doesn’t surprise me as a pastor” (March 29): Wow! This pastor must live in a compartmentalized little world. I stopped fantasizing about my “invisible ...

It wasn’t quite a “where were you when” moment, but almost. I’m talking about Richard Dawkins – the world’s most famous atheist – announcing that he’d become a “cultural Christian.” Initially I was ...

It wasn’t quite a “where were you when” moment, but almost. I’m talking about Richard Dawkins — the world’s most famous atheist — announcing that he’d become a “cultural Christian.” Initially I was ...

Why are we here on earth? To Richard Dawkins, that's a remarkably stupid question. In a heated interview, the famous biologist insists that religion is evil and God might as well be a children's ...