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Richard Dawkins was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. In this role, it was his responsibility to help the public to understand science, as it was being taught in the universities. When apparently plausible pseudo-scientific claims were made, with the intention of undermining public confidence in the Theory of Evolution, Dawkins took on the responsibility of refuting those claims, by reasoned scientific argument.

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