![]() ![]() ![]() Dawkins being Dawkins, though, he can't resist asides indicating his disdain for parents who teach their children about Father Christmas (or Santa Claus) without imbuing them with skepticism, and - again - about the Nobel Prize spread of Oxford versus the world's nations, though the language is dialed back. "An Appetite for Wonder" seems an almost bucolic examination of Dawkins's childhood in boarding school and his beginnings at Oxford, with asides indicating the degree to which biology had captivated Dawkins from a young age. His most recent work, though, is more conciliatory. ![]() Recent public statements defending "mild pedophilia" on a relative scale and mocking Muslims for failing to obtain as many Nobel Prizes as had a college at Oxford have raised eyebrows - and hackles - across the world. The British evolutionary biologist has branched beyond the ivory tower with books and public pronouncements focusing largely on his belief that there is no God "The God Delusion," published in 2006, made him perhaps the most notorious public atheist in the world. Richard Dawkins is no stranger to controversy. ![]()
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