by Jimmy Lee Shreeve I’m as mad as Richard Dawkins after having had a visitation from God. Why? Because the main candidates in the Norwich North by-election , to be held on July 23rd, are so boring. The Tory candidate, 27-year-old Chloe Smith , for example, looks set to pull a victory, and achieve her long-held ambition of nabbing a seat in the Commons. But come on Norwich North citizens –...
I’m fascinated by the concept of “reality”, and lately I’ve seen and read from different authors references about the subject. Most recently I read a passage from Richard Dawkins on his book “The God Delusion” that deals with reality. The human brain runs first-class simulation software. Our eyes don’t present to our brains a faithful photograph [...]
Ernst Mayr was born today in Würzburg, Germany, in 1904. A biologist (ornithologist, more precisely), his work on speciation was a major contribution to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. It also underpins the theory of punctuated equilibrium....
[Modern theists] give the name of 'God' to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers in God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is now nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines....
While the management is in a video embedding mood, here's another - The Scientific Baloney Detection Kit, which arrives with us via a long and prestigious line of scientists including Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins.
A new gameshow on Turkish television will pit rabbis, imams, monks and priests against each other in an attempt to convert sworn aetheists to their respective religions. Quick, someone buy the rights. I want to see Richard Dawkins as a contestant!
I’m not a huge fan of Dawkins, but I found this video from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, presented by Dr. Michael Shermer , an excellent primer to thinking critically about claims made by scientists – or pseudoscientists, as it were: It’s a little long (almost 15 minutes), but worth it, I think. [...]
This isn't CAD or BIM but the hardware, technology and science seen in this tour of The Institute for Genomic Research is amazing. Genome sequencing depends on high end computer technology and the pro...
On the Infidel Guy radio show tomorrow night at 8:00pm on of course, the Founding Fathers and religion. There are call in and chat opportunities as well. Since 1999, The Infidel Guy show has brought you uninterrupted freethought and science-minded guests such as Michio Kaku, Dan Barker, Ken Miller, Michael Shermer, Asia Carrera, Richard Dawkins, [...]
Here is me with some of my class of the day, all Dr's or Proffesors but they did not argue too much ! They are presenting my with a gift box, unfortunatly not chocolates but Dates wrapped in different colour foils. If I manage to get them home you can all try one ! The ones without the posh dresses are still Muslims but not native Saudi's, most from Egypt but one is from the Sudan. Had an interesting...
Watching CH4's "Inside Nature's Giants" I noticed a blatant error in the picture of evolution being expounded. Its also the same error that perfuses through the whole of GCSE Biology. It is the error of essentialism... That is to say that "species" are given an actual status. People then say things like "elephants are adapted to their environment by having big ears". One...
This week, the rise in swine flu parties and why a woman in Wales has received Â20k of lottery money for a load of arse. Plus what's on offer at Richard Dawkins' kids' camp this summer. Certified Michael Jackson-free (almost).
Happy Canada Day. Let's celebrate with links. * SEK considers Infinite Summer's weird morbidity (yes, it is weird), as well as the murky fluidity that constitutes literary "generations." Despite the many other projects that already threaten to consume July I've decided to halfheartedly participate in this, and may even post about once I've caught up to where I'm supposed to already be in...
Richard "God Delusion" Dawkins' foundation has helped fund an atheist/sceptic summer camp that teaches 8-17 year olds how to think critically about the world: Alongside the more traditional activities of tug-of-war, swimming and canoeing, children at the five-day camp in Somerset will learn about rational scepticism, moral philosophy, ethics and evolution. Camp-goers aged eight to 17 will...
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