Richard Dawkins is an outstanding British ethologist and popularizer of science, winner of many literary and scientific prizes. Every new Dawkins book becomes a bestseller and provokes heated debate. His work played a huge role in the revival of interest in scientific books addressed to a wide readership. However, Dawkins is not only an author of meme theory and a passionate proponent of Darwinian evolutionary theory, but also an equally passionate atheist and materialist.