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→Criticism of the Blind Watchmaker and Climbing Mount Improbable
Dr. [[Jonathan Sarfati]] offered several criticisms of the book ''The Blind Watchmaker'' by Richard Dawkins and states in his summary that the "...Apostle of [[Atheism]] has a long way to go to make a convincing case for his faith."<ref name="cotw">http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1855</ref>
Dr. [[Jonathan Sarfati]] offered several criticisms of the book ''The Blind Watchmaker'' by Richard Dawkins and states in his summary that the "...Apostle of [[Atheism]] has a long way to go to make a convincing case for his faith."<ref name="cotw">http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1855</ref>
== Richard Dawkins on veganism ==
[[File:Richard Dawkins photograph.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Richard Dawkins said about vegetarianism/veganism: "[It] leaves me in a very difficult moral position…".<ref name="salonvegan">[https://www.salon.com/2016/01/09/new_atheists_must_become_new_vegans_sam_harris_richard_dawkins_and_the_extra_burden_on_moral_leaders/ New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders], ''Salon'', 2016</ref>]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and veganism]] and [[New Atheism and veganism]] and [[Richard Dawkins on veganism]]
At the present time, the new atheist [[Sam Harris]] is the only notable new atheist who has become a [[vegetarian]].<ref name="salonvegan"/> Harris said he "aspires" to be a [[vegan]].<ref name="salonvegan"/>
Richard Dawkins stated about vegetarianism/veganism:
{{Cquote|[It] leaves me in a very difficult moral position… I think you have a very strong point when you say that anybody who eats meat has a very strong obligation to think seriously about it and I don’t find any good defense. I find myself in exactly the same position as you or I would have been, well probably you wouldn’t have been but I might have been, two hundred years ago […] talking about slavery… I think what I’d really like to see is people like you having a far greater effect on, I would call it, consciousness raising and trying to swing it around so it becomes the societal norm not to eat meat.<ref name="salonvegan"/>}}
Steven Stankevicus, the author of the aforementioned ''Salon'' article ''New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders'', wrote in response: "'People like you'? How about people like Richard Dawkins?".<ref name="salonvegan"/>
See also: [[Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade]] and [[Atheism and slavery]] and [[Atheism and forced labor]]
=== Richard Dawkins' high blood pressure and his lack of a vegan diet ===
''See also:'' [[New Atheism and veganism#Richard Dawkins' high blood pressure and his lack of a vegan diet|Richard Dawkins' high blood pressure and his lack of a vegan diet]]
According to [[Harvard]] Health publishing which is under the Harvard Medical School:
{{Cquote|People who follow a vegetarian diet tend to have lower blood pressure than their meat-eating counterparts, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Vegetarians avoid meat and eat mainly plant-based foods like vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes (beans and peas). Some include dairy products and eggs (and in this study, fish) in their diets.<ref>[Vegetarian diet linked to lower blood pressure], Harvard Health publishing which is under the Harvard Medical School, 2014</ref>}}
Dawkins has high blood pressure (see: [[New Atheism and veganism#Richard Dawkins' high blood pressure and his lack of a vegan diet|Richard Dawkins' high blood pressure and his lack of a vegan diet]] and [[Richard Dawkins' health]]).
=== New Atheism leadership's problem with excess weight and a vegan/vegetarian diet ===
See: [[New Atheism and veganism#New Atheism leadership's problem with excess weight and a vegan/vegetarian diet|New Atheism leadership's problem with excess weight and a vegan/vegetarian diet]]
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