A Devil's Chaplain
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A Devil's Chaplain (Phoenix, 2003, ISBN 0753817500) is a book collecting selected essays and other writings by the British zoologist Richard Dawkins. The book contains 32 essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, terrorism, religion and creationism. A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late colleague, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.
The book's title is a reference to a quotation of Charles Darwin, made in reference to Darwin's lack of belief in how "a perfect world" was designed by God: "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!"
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See also
- Michael Ruse's review of A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/28365;jsessionid=aaa-Fqhrw_7DRG)
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| Books: The Selfish Gene - The Extended Phenotype - The Blind Watchmaker - River Out Of Eden - Climbing Mount Improbable - Unweaving the Rainbow - A Devil's Chaplain - The Ancestor's Tale |
| See also: W. D. Hamilton - Williams revolution - atheism - humanism - evolution - Lalla Ward |
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