Thought Theater (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the following video clips, Richard Dawkins shares his views on a wide range of topics surrounding his agnostic beliefs. He offers his opinions on the source of morality for non-believers and dispels the commonly held view that religion...
End Times Prophecy News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A campaign to repeal the offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel, which made it illegal to insult Christianity, was proposed in January by the Liberal Democrat Evan Harris. It was supported by public figures including the author Philip Pullman and the academic Richard Dawkins. They claimed the little-used laws served no useful purpose, while allowing religious groups to try to censor...
Daylight Atheism (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the opening chapter of The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins penned the following words: An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: "I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one." I [...]
BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: Reinventing The Sacred (Stuart A. Kauffman, 11.13.06, Edge) Two fine authors, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, have written recent books, The God Delusion and Breaking the Spell arguing against religion. Their views are based on contemporary science. But the largest convictions of contemporary science remain based on reductionism. I would like to begin a discussion...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
Paul Bloom's 2005 article explores the scientific basis for religion and belief in God. Among other topics, he tackles why people cling to creationist beliefs: Richard Dawkins may well be right when he describes the theory of natural selection as...
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
James F. McGrath is one of those theologians who criticize Richard Dawkins and the new atheists. According to McGrath, those atheists simply don't get it when it comes to modern sophisticated theology. The sophisticated theologians say that Dawkins and his fellow atheists are attacking a strawman version of religion. Alister McGrath's1 defense of religion falls into this category...
Times & Seasons (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
You never know what they'll be worth someday: “Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000.” The auction attracted immense interest, including a bid by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Strange that it is this letter, in which Einstein voices rather dismissive views about religion and the Bible, which has generated all this interest, [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Renowned British atheist Richard Dawkins says he was among the bidders for a rare Albert Einstein letter that dismissed religion as childish superstitions.Dawkins, an author and biology professor, told British newspapers Friday he was disappointed he couldn't nab Einstein's 1954 note, which sold for $332,700 at Thursday auction in London. Dawkins said his offer was substantially...
The Recliner Commentaries (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Recently prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have launched an all out attack on religion. The subtitle of one of Hitchens ' books, for example, is "How religion poison's everything." A recent study, on the other hand, says that churches are giving 8.8 billion dollars to developing countries! I am curious to know how much atheists are giving.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Biologist Professor Richard Dawkins has revealed he was one of the bidders who lost out in an auction for a letter by Albert Einstein.
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... to say. Shortly after that, on May 10, 2007, the producers of the show broadcast an interview with Richard Dawkins []. (The producer was Sandra Gionas, not Wodek Szemberg.) Videos of the show have just now been posted on YouTube ..., , , , If you listen to the opening remarks on the first episode you will hear Steve Paikin admitting that they have Richard Dawkins on...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Prof Richard Dawkins was unsuccessful in his bid for a letter by Albert Einstein that described religious beliefs as "childish superstitions", it emerged today
Uncommon Descent (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
In this essay Richard Dawkins proposes the following: In fact, natural selection is the very opposite of a chance process, and it is the only ultimate explanation we know for complex, improbable things… We need a better explanation [than design by space aliens], such as evolution by natural selection or an equally workable account of the [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Richard Dawkins's profile has morphed in recent years: from the most lucid science writer of our time, the man who makes his readers feel smarter than they really are, to the Chief Pastor of World Atheism Inc. Despite the astonishing sales of The God Delusion, there has been some loss. His new role has made his job of evolution's champion harder because the religious right in the US...
RubyTooth.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Speech in honour of Dan Dennett, presenting him with the Richard Dawkins Award for 2007 at the Crystal City conference of the Atheist Alliance International. Dan Dennett is a year younger than me, almost to the day. But I must admit that I have grown to think of him as a sort of intellectual elder brother. Since the deaths of Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, I have been rather short...
