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Original Title:	A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
ISBN:	0618485392 (ISBN13: 9780618485390)
Edition Language:	English

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love Paperback | Pages: 263 pages

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Title	:	A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Author	:	Richard Dawkins
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 263 pages
Published	:	October 27th 2004 by Mariner Books (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Religion. Writing. Essays. Atheism. Biology

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The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.

Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.

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The title of Richard Dawkins 'The Devil's Chaplain' refers to the Darwins words, which he wrote in a letter (13 July 1856) to Joseph Dalton Hooker - an English botanist, geographer and traveler - in which he expressed his disbelief about the essence of the perfect world, created by Creatio Ex Nihilo ("What a book a Devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!").'The Devil's Chaplain' is a collection of texts by the British

A revealing collection of essays by a passionate scientistOne of the wonderful things about this book is the sense that one gets of a distinguished scientist letting his hair down, as it were, and discoursing informally on a number of interesting subjects including some outside his area of expertise. In the game of "Who would you invite to dinner if you could choose anybody?" Oxford University Professor Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, and other important works on evolution, would be

A Devil's Chaplain is an excellent collection of Dawkin's writings and provides a well-rounded illustration of his personal and professional interactions. Ranging from a eulogy for the late Douglas Adams to forwards for books and personal correspondence with his colleagues, the text provides an intriguing glimpse into some of the more interesting corners of a storied academic's body of work.Dawkins is first and foremost a great scientific mind, but it is in his circle of colleagues and friends

A collection of essays by one of the premier evolutionary biologists of our time. The works were originally published in a variety of ways (book reviews, book intros, multiple author collections, etc.) and cover a wide range of topics. Organized religion, in particular, gets some severe treatment. One of my favorite quotes from the book: "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

The book started out ok, with several good essays. The final chapters with the book reviews and eulogies is mostly the reason why the rating is so low. The last chapter, a prayer for my daughter is recommended reading. All in all, not the best book by Richard. I prefer his science books.

A Devil's Chaplain is an excellent collection of Dawkin's writing, ranging across the topics of genetics, memetics, pseudoscience, religion, terrorism and the nature of life itself. This is a field trip through Dawkin's mind, including letters to the prime minister, introductions to the books of others, and pieces that have appeared in popular print. His eulogy for his good friend Douglas Adams is particularly touching, and no less so is his treatment of his late rival, Stephen Jay Gould. But

As a fan of Dawkins, this is somewhat repetitive with other books I really liked - such as God Delusion and Greatest Show on Earth. I would only recommend this one for serious fans.