Richard Dawkins is an outstanding British scientist, etologist and popularizer of science, winner of many literary and scientific awards. Each new book Dawkins becomes a bestseller and causes heated discussions. His work has played a huge role in reviving interest in scientific books addressed to a wide readership. However, Dawkins is not only the author of the theory of memes and a passionate supporter of the Darwinian theory of evolution, but also an equally passionate atheist and materialist. In God as an Illusion, he shows the talent of a brilliant polemicist, addressing the most acute and urgent problems of the modern world. After the release of this work, today already translated into many languages, Dawkins was recognized as the author of the year 2o6 by Reader's Digest and gained a whole army of enthusiastic fans and irreconcilable opponents. There is no dispute. “This book should be read by everyone,” says the British magazine The Economist.