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Amazon.com Review Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's Chaplain , everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of natural selection and evolution. Although many of these essays have been published elsewhere, this book is something of a greatest-hits compilation, reprinting many of Dawkins' most famous recent compositions. They are well worth re-reading. His 1998 review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense is as bracing an indictment of academic obscurantism as the book it covered, although the review reveals some of Dawkins' personal biases as well. Several essays are devoted to skillfully debunking religion and mysticism, and these are likely to raise the hackles of even casual believers. Science, and more specifically evolutionary science, underlies each essay, giving readers a glimpse into the last several years' debates about the minutiae of natural selection. In one moving piece, Dawkins reflects on his late rival Stephen Jay Gould's magnum opus , The Structure of Evolutionary Theory , and clarifies what i

Who reads A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings?

Author

Richard Dawkins

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780297865421

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Religion, Religious Studies

Rating

4.5 / 5 (251 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14