Richard Dawkins is an outstanding British ethologist and popularizer of science, winner of many literary and scientific awards. Each new book by Dawkins becomes a bestseller and causes heated discussions. His works played a huge role in reviving interest in scientific books addressed to a wide readership. However, Dawkins is not only the author of the meme theory and a passionate supporter of Darwinian evolution, but also an equally passionate atheist and materialist. In The God Delusion, he shows his talent as a brilliant polemicist, addressing the most pressing and pressing problems of the modern world. After the release of this work, which has now been translated into many languages, Dawkins was recognized as the author of 2006 by Reader's Digest and gained an entire army of enthusiastic fans and implacable opponents. The disputes do not subside. “Everyone should read this book,” says the British magazine The Economist.