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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="Devil's_Chaplain_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Devil's Chaplain (disambiguation)">Devil's Chaplain (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox ib-book vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">A Devil's Chaplain </caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Evolutionary_biology" title="Evolutionary biology">Evolutionary biology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">2003 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">264 pp.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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</style><bdi>0-618-33540-4</bdi></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52269209">52269209</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">500 21</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">QH366.2 .D373 2003</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="Unweaving_the_Rainbow" title="Unweaving the Rainbow">Unweaving the Rainbow</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="The_Ancestor's_Tale" title="The Ancestor's Tale">The Ancestor's Tale</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love</b></i> is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by <a href="Richard_Dawkins" title="Richard Dawkins">Richard Dawkins</a>. Published five years after Dawkins's previous book <i><a href="Unweaving_the_Rainbow" title="Unweaving the Rainbow">Unweaving the Rainbow</a></i>, it contains essays covering subjects including <a href="Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a>, <a href="Genetic_determinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Genetic determinism">genetic determinism</a>, <a href="Memetics" title="Memetics">memetics</a>, <a href="Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>, <a href="Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> and <a href="Creationism" title="Creationism">creationism</a>. A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late adversary <a href="Stephen_Jay_Gould" title="Stephen Jay Gould">Stephen Jay Gould</a>.

</p><p>The book's title is a reference to a quotation of <a href="Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>, in a letter to <a href="Joseph_Dalton_Hooker" title="Joseph Dalton Hooker">J.D. Hooker</a> dated 13 July 1856, made in reference to Darwin's lack of belief in how "a perfect world" was <a href="Teleological_argument" title="Teleological argument">designed</a> by God (and a reference to Reverend <a href="Robert_Taylor_(Radical)" title="Robert Taylor (Radical)">Robert Taylor</a>):

"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!"<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2></div>

<p>Robin McKie reviewed the book for <i><a href="The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> and stated that the book contained a mixture of touching essays and "the good, old knockabout stuff at which Dawkins excels".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Argument_from_poor_design" title="Argument from poor design">Argument from poor design</a></li>

<li><a href="Great_Ape_Project" title="Great Ape Project">Great Ape Project</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This was written in 1856 as Darwin worked towards the <a href="Publication_of_Darwin's_theory#Struggle_for_existence" title="Publication of Darwin's theory">publication of his theory</a>, and has been related to his memories of <a href="Charles_Darwin's_education#Second_year_doldrums" title="Charles Darwin's education">his time at university</a> when an "Infidel home missionary tour" by the Reverend <a href="Robert_Taylor_(Radical)" title="Robert Taylor (Radical)">Robert Taylor</a> warned Darwin of the dangers of dissent from church doctrine. While Taylor was subsequently nicknamed "the devil's chaplain," the term goes back further, and <a href="Geoffrey_Chaucer" title="Geoffrey Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a> has <a href="The_Parson's_Prologue_and_Tale" class="mw-redirect" title="The Parson's Prologue and Tale">his Parson</a> say "Flatereres been the develes chapelleyns, that syngen evere placebo" in a reference to <a href="Placebo_(at_funeral)" class="mw-redirect" title="Placebo (at funeral)">Placebo (at funeral)</a>."</span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDarwin1856" class="citation web cs1">Darwin, Charles (13 July 1856). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-1924.xml">"Letter to J D Hooker"</a>. <i>Darwin Project, University of Cambridge</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 January</span> 2021</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/scienceandnature/story/0,6000,892495,00.html">"Darwin's child"</a>, profile by Simon Hattenstone, <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, 10 February 2003.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMcKie2003" class="citation news cs1">McKie, Robin (9 March 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/09/scienceandnature.highereducation">"Dawkins versus the priests and New Age shamans? No contest"</a>. <i>The Observer</i>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li>Review by <a href="Michael_Ruse" title="Michael Ruse">Michael Ruse</a>, 2003. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/through-a-glass-darkly">Through a Glass, Darkly</a>." <i><a href="American_Scientist" title="American Scientist">American Scientist</a></i>.</li>

<li>Review by <a href="Richard_Holloway" title="Richard Holloway">Richard Holloway</a>, 2003. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/scienceandnature.highereducation1">A callous world</a>." <i><a href="The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Richard_Dawkins_bibliography" title="Richard Dawkins bibliography">Bibliography</a></li>

<li><a href="Views_of_Richard_Dawkins" title="Views of Richard Dawkins">Views</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Selfish_Gene" title="The Selfish Gene">The Selfish Gene</a></i> (1976)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Extended_Phenotype" title="The Extended Phenotype">The Extended Phenotype</a></i> (1982)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Blind_Watchmaker" title="The Blind Watchmaker">The Blind Watchmaker</a></i> (1986)</li>

<li><i><a href="River_Out_of_Eden" title="River Out of Eden">River Out of Eden</a></i> (1995)</li>

<li><i><a href="Climbing_Mount_Improbable" title="Climbing Mount Improbable">Climbing Mount Improbable</a></i> (1996)</li>

<li><i><a href="Unweaving_the_Rainbow" title="Unweaving the Rainbow">Unweaving the Rainbow</a></i> (1998)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Ancestor's_Tale" title="The Ancestor's Tale">The Ancestor's Tale</a></i> (2004)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_God_Delusion" title="The God Delusion">The God Delusion</a></i> (2006)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth%3A_The_Evidence_for_Evolution" title="The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution">The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution</a></i> (2009)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Magic_of_Reality" title="The Magic of Reality"> The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True</a></i> (2011)</li>

<li><i><a href="An_Appetite_for_Wonder" title="An Appetite for Wonder">An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist</a></i> (2013)</li>

<li><i><a href="Brief_Candle_in_the_Dark" title="Brief Candle in the Dark">Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science</a></i> (2015)</li>

<li><i><a href="Science_in_the_Soul" title="Science in the Soul">Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist</a></i> (2017)</li>

<li><i>Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide</i> (2019)</li>

<li><i>Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science</i> (2021)</li>

<li><i><a href="Flights_of_Fancy%3A_Defying_Gravity_by_Design_and_Evolution" title="Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution">Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution</a></i> (2021)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Genetic_Book_of_the_Dead" title="The Genetic Book of the Dead">The Genetic Book of the Dead</a></i> (2024)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Growing_Up_in_the_Universe" title="Growing Up in the Universe">Growing Up in the Universe</a></i> (1991)</li>

<li><i><a href="Dawkins_vs._Gould" title="Dawkins vs. Gould">Dawkins vs. Gould</a></i> (2001)</li>

<li><i><a href="Beyond_Belief%3A_Science%2C_Religion%2C_Reason_and_Survival" title="Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival">Beyond Belief</a></i> (2006)</li>

<li><i><a href="Richard_Dawkins%3A_How_a_Scientist_Changed_the_Way_We_Think" title="Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think">Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think</a></i> (2006)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Oxford_Book_of_Modern_Science_Writing" title="The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing">The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing</a></i> (2008)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Documentaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Nice_Guys_Finish_First" title="Nice Guys Finish First">Nice Guys Finish First</a></i> (1987)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Blind_Watchmaker_(film)" title="The Blind Watchmaker (film)">The Blind Watchmaker</a></i> (1987)</li>

<li><i><a href="Break_the_Science_Barrier" title="Break the Science Barrier">Break the Science Barrier</a></i> (1996)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Atheism_Tapes" title="The Atheism Tapes">The Atheism Tapes</a></i> (2004)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Enemies_of_Reason" title="The Enemies of Reason">The Enemies of Reason</a></i> (2007)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Genius_of_Charles_Darwin" title="The Genius of Charles Darwin">The Genius of Charles Darwin</a></i> (2008)</li>

<li><i><a href="Faith_School_Menace%3F" title="Faith School Menace?">Faith School Menace?</a></i> (2010)</li>

<li><i><a href="Sex%2C_Death_and_the_Meaning_of_Life" title="Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life">Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life</a></i> (2012)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Unbelievers" title="The Unbelievers">The Unbelievers</a></i> (2013)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Atheist_Bus_Campaign" title="Atheist Bus Campaign">Atheist Bus Campaign</a></li>

<li><a href="Out_Campaign" title="Out Campaign">Out Campaign</a></li>

<li><a href="Gerin_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerin oil">Gerin oil</a></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Dawkins_Foundation_for_Reason_and_Science" title="Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science">Foundation for Reason and Science</a></li>

<li><a href="Simonyi_Professor_for_the_Public_Understanding_of_Science" title="Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science">Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science</a></li>

<li><a href="Ultimate_Boeing_747_gambit" title="Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit">Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit</a></li>

<li><a href="Lalla_Ward" title="Lalla Ward">Lalla Ward</a></li>

<li><a href="Weasel_program" title="Weasel program">Weasel program</a></li>

<li><a href="Marian_Dawkins" title="Marian Dawkins">Marian Dawkins</a></li>

<li><a href="Middle_World" title="Middle World">Middle World</a></li>

<li><a href="God's_utility_function" class="mw-redirect" title="God's utility function">God's utility function</a></li>

<li><a href="Courtier's_reply" title="Courtier's reply">Courtier's reply</a></li>

<li><a href="Spectrum_of_theistic_probability" title="Spectrum of theistic probability">Spectrum of theistic probability</a></li>

<li><a href="Universal_Darwinism" title="Universal Darwinism">Universal Darwinism</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_(album)" title="Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)">Endless Forms Most Beautiful</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="When_the_Professor_Got_Stuck_in_the_Snow" title="When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow">When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Richard_Dawkins_Award" title="Richard Dawkins Award">Richard Dawkins Award</a></li></ul>

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