Richard Dawkins Research Paper

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Richard Dawkins has greatly influenced the way I look at the Universe and how I think in general. Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist who has a P.H.D from Oxford University. He is most famous for his severe critique of religion and his defense of science. I never use to be an extremely religious person but I did believe in god. However, after listening to Mr. Dawkins debates and reading his book the God Delusion, I was swayed by the evidence and became an atheist. A more important way that Richard Dawkins influenced me was showing the beauty of science. The General Theory of Relativity to astronomy are eloquent and beautiful descriptions of the Universe. To quote Mr. Dawkins, “The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is
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