There is a tendency the world over to attribute genius or faculty one man has to God. None cannot deny one the liberty to believe it if the latter is that much convinced. But there are certain genii in the world that stand with out divine help. They believe in man, they believe in nature, and the forces of nature. Might be the believers would again appear and say that it is this nature they call God. But Richard Dawkins is not one among them.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2001. He is a gifted writer. He is known for his popularization of Darwinian ideas as well as for original thinking on evolutionary theory. He has assumed quite a novel way to prove the doctrine of evolution, the way of genes. He has used illuminating metaphors to prove the Darwinian assumptions. His book “The Selfish Gene” has a special way of arguing in favor of Darwinianism. Genes-molecules are of DNA are the fundamental units of natural selection, he argues.

"It rapidly became clear to me that the most imaginative way of looking at evolution, and the most inspiring way of teaching it, was to say that it's all about the genes. It's the genes that, for their own good, are manipulating the bodies they ride about in. The individual organism is a survival machine for its genes."

In another book, The Extended Phenotype, he goes beyond the body to the family, the social group, the architecture, the environment that animals create, and sees these as part of the phenotype-the embodiment of the genes. He takes a Darwinian view of culture, exemplified in his invention of the "meme," the unit of cultural inheritance; memes are essentially ideas, and they, too, are operated on by natural selection.

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University; Fellow of New College; He is author of The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden (Science Masters Series), Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Devil's Chaplain, and The Ancestor's Tale.

In his role as the Charles Simony Professor For The Understanding Of Science at Oxford University, Dawkins regularly talks to the public regarding his views on the wonders of science. That is , unlike Godly Professors, Dawkins is not an ivory Tower Professor or scholar. He is quite aware that knowledge is for the uplift of mankind.

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