The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS or RDF) is a non-profit organization founded by biologist Richard Dawkins in 2006. It is trusteed by Dawkins and Claire Enders in the United Kingdom along with J. Anderson Thomson in the United States. The British Foundation is registered as Charity Number 1119952.
Among its planned activities, RDFRS will finance research into the psychology of belief and religion, finance scientific ed...
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The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS or RDF) is a non-profit organization founded by biologist Richard Dawkins in 2006. It is trusteed by Dawkins and Claire Enders in the United Kingdom along with J. Anderson Thomson in the United States. The British Foundation is registered as Charity Number 1119952.
Among its planned activities, RDFRS will finance research into the psychology of belief and religion, finance scientific education programs and materials, and publicize and support secular charitable organizations.
Dawkins had in a 2002 TED talk (titled as "On militant atheism"), prior to writing The God Delusion, called out for the need for an "anti-Templeton" to step up, saying that if his books sold better, he would take the initiative himself. Theist author Marion Ledwig suggests that the foundation may have been set up as an atheist counterpart to the John Templeton Foundation, an organization which Dawkins has publicly criticized for corrupting science,...
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