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What little I've read by Richard Dawkins so far (The Selfish Gene is on my list) has intrigued and satisfied me. The witty evolutionary biologist and athiest is not shy about touting his worldview, and I recently came across a couple excellent articles of his. The first, "The future looks bright," from "The Guardian" of June 21, 2003, concerns a clever and much-needed attempt to raise social consciousness and acceptance of atheism. The second, "When Religion Steps on Science's Turf," from the Spring 1998 edition of "Free Inquiry," notes, among other things, that many religions make unscientific claims about the physical world, even to justify their ethical teachings, which are ostensibly in a different domain. Before you respond, keep in mind that one of qwantz.com's daily dinosaur comics is with Dawkins on this one.