205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science

<p>In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society’s Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers <em>The Blind Watchmaker</em>, <em>Climbing Mount Improbable</em>, <em>The Ancestor’s Tale</em>, <em>The God Delusion</em>, and two volumes of autobiography, <em>An Appetite for Wonder</em> and <em>Brief Candle in the Dark</em>. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in <em>Prospect</em> magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This episode is heavily edited because Dawkins was having trouble with his voice, and Shermer tried to speak a little more to give Dawkins a chance to let his voice rest.</span></p>