By Altamash Hussain Khan Bhatti
Richard Dawkins is a man with many titles he’s an ethnologist, an evolutionary biologist, an author, an emeritus fellow of New College Oxford, Richard was born on March26, 1941, in a Christian family, his father was a Christian and mother a Jew. He grew up in a religious atmosphere. His sister and he grew up going to the church in their early days, he even has been on record and said that he and his sister had an “angelical upbringing” but during his teen years something changed and the human curiosity started building up, he was fascinated by the theory of evolution and was unable to cope up with the explanation of creation provided by the religion, as both of his parents were natural science and tried to answer the burning questions of Richard’s mind with scientific reasoning, and that somewhere helped Richard to look at the things with a scientific prospective, Richard is known as an outspoken atheist, and some of his work is still used by the new generation of atheists to prove a point, based on logical thinking and proofs, he is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design, one could argue that the points he presented in his book “The blind watchmaker” is one of the best arguments against an argument of a supernatural creator of this universe based upon the complexity of this universe, his book “The God Delusion” is one of the most downloaded books in the areas which are dominated by religion extremist and he is now planning to make his book available to everyone for free in those regions and translated in the local language, and he is arguably one of the figures that brought discussing about atheism to the public, during his countless debates and appearance on TV and Radio sets, and criticism of the religion is not the only thing Richard is popularly known as he has done work in evolutionary biology and revolutionised the work with his discovery of “The Selfish Gene” in 1976, he even has number of organisations working for the betterment of the society and trying make people think logically and rationally, and independency of state and religion.
The Richard Dawkins Award was first started in 2003, and was given to people who are distinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead and is named after Richard Dawkins, an English evolutionary biologist who was named the world’s top thinker in a 2013 reader’s poll of the Prospect Magazine.
Atheist Alliance of America created the Richard Dawkins Award in 2003 to honour an outstanding atheist whose contributions raise public awareness of the nontheistic life stance; who, through writings, media, the arts, film, and/or the stage, advocates increased scientific knowledge; who, through work or by example, teaches acceptance of the nontheistic philosophy.
Previous recipients were James Randi, Ann Druyan, Penn and Teller, Julia Sweeney, Daniel Dennett, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bill Maher, Susan Jacoby, Christopher Hitchens, Eugenie Scott, Steven Pinker, Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais.
And for the first time this award was presented to an Indian Atheist Javed Aktar, which does indicates that no matter one is from, a developed country or under developing country, the concept of God has always been in peoples mind and no matter which era or background one is from there are a lot of people who find the concept of God to believe in.
Atheist Alliance of America works to develop and provide educational, advocacy and community-building programs for the atheist community, and to serve as an incubator for activists and activist organizations.
Well one could definitely see that there are people in the society which are brave enough to challenge the efficacy of old belief and in every era and in every country there is someone who is not afraid to challenge the things society beliefs in. As Bhagat Singh wrote in his essay Why Am I An Atheist, “ That everyone who stands for progress or development should question one by one the efficacy of old beliefs and should reject those who can’t stand against the onslaught of logic and reasoning”. But as a human we should understand that we don’t have all the answers and maybe we will ever know everything but that should not stop us from questioning and look for answers.
“If after regress reasoning and logic one comes up to a belief or accept a philosophy he should be appreciated for his efforts, his logic maybe faulty and maybe is reasoning too but there is a hope that he will correct himself, because logic and reasoning are the guiding principle of his life ” – Bhagat Singh
How Disgusting that this Abhorrent website is promoting the Rotten and Militant Atheist Islamophobe R Dawkins, who has long, well-documented history of promoting Hatred towards Islam and Muslims. Is this website really Muslim oriented? Or A Hidden Munafiq.
search ” Is God Dead” by Prager University on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3L4NKxzOMA
The most intelligent brain ever Einstein was absolutely clear on need of a Supreme Intelligent Being (not human/animal) for creating and maintaining the uncontrollable physical forces of this ever-expanding INFINITE Universe!
Fools rush in, where Angels fear to tread!
Dawkins is more of ideologue then a biologist, he is widely disliked by scientists for his dogmatism and bigotry. Dawkins is white western supremacist with a long history of attacking Islam and Muslims, he calls himself a “cultural Christian” while raving against the presence of Islam and Muslims. Not very scientific of him, is it? He also has not problems with “pedophilia as long pain isn’t involved” Makes sense since atheists have no morality. Atheism has NOTHING to do with science, logic or deep thinking, in fact atheism is incompatible with the scientific method, and mathematics. You might as well go play the lottery. Dawkins also avoids debates with educated Muslims, because that would be the end of his career. The author of this poor article, Altamash Hussain Khan Bhatti sounds like an uncritical fan boy who grew up watching youtube videos instead of reading actual books. Giving an award name after an Islamophobe like Dawkins to a hack like Javed Akhtar means nothing.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atheism-is-inconsistent-with-the-scientific-method-prizewinning-physicist-says/
educated muslims- really .
whites are supremists and have a good reason for this.
they dislike black islamic people ,just stay away from whites.
they are not interested in muslims-
why r you so interested in winning their favour-is it a god given duty that they have to be friendly with you,
stay inside your own fence-mullah, masjid.madrassahs.
Wrong as usual, lying lulli. Islam is for every race, they join us of their own free will. This is concept absent in Hinduism which is based on a version of white supremacy which it brought to India in the form of the inhuman caste system. That’s why Hinduism has no appeal to anyone but Brahmans who seek to enslave and enslave others.
Keep that cow worshipping, urine and feces consuming Hindu garbage inside your mandirs, goo bhakt.
An Increasing Number Of Whites are Embracing Islam by the way, of which White(Young and educated) women form nearly 70%. Amazing….
Bosnia-white muslim country
Albania-white muslim country
Chechenya, Dagestan and Ingushetia- Russian white muslim regions
Russia- 10% white muslims
Idiot go and eat some shit and drink some piss so that some brain might grow in that brainless head
white women turning muslims-
absolute crap.
inventing lies -why you jerk
Inventing lies is a Hindu specialty.
Islam is growing amongst whites and all races, that’s a fact.
Hinduism is declining because no one is convinced by a caste based primitive animal worshiping cult. Even intelligent Hindus concert to Islam.