Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker Predict the Future of Religion

Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker explore the frontiers of science, language, morality, artificial intelligence, evolution, and the future of human civilization.

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, author, and public intellectual best known for popularizing the gene-centered view of evolution through his book The Selfish Gene. He is also a prominent atheist and a strong advocate for science and secularism, having written extensively on these topics in books like The God Delusion. His work introduced concepts such as the "selfish gene" and the "meme," a unit of cultural transmission.
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