How Does Dawkins Contribute To Obsoleteness?
In his review of a new book called "Brief candle in the dark",Steven Shapin of The Guardian seems to evenhandedly evaluate Richard Dawkins,one of the top thinkers of current world. As a professor of "public understanding of science" at Oxford, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins shifted his intellectual emphasis to more of a preacher of "Reasons" that,according to Dawkins,are almost exclusively yields of science than clarifying the biological way of understanding the world around us. As a self-professed victorian in an imaginary war between cultures, Dawkins claims that science has won by a big margin and ostracized others such as religion,philosophy to the extent that almost led them to obsoleteness. In answering deep philosophical questions