I was recently flicking my car radio dial and heard an affected British voice tinkling out on NPR. I assumed it was some fussy, gossipy opera expert fresh from London. To my astonishment, it was Richard Dawkins, the thrice-married emperor of contemporary atheists. I had never heard him speak, so it was a revelation. On science, Dawkins was spot on — lively and nimble. But on religion, his voice...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Posted by Hilary Jane Margaret White at Labels: 0 comments: Subscribe to: "Homophobic, puppy-kicking, incandescent fireball." English, Catholic, conservative and not at all sorry. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. The world holds us to be fools; let us hold it to be mad. It is the folly of too many to mistake...
What would the world be like without faith? Many religious figures argue that it would become morally bankrupt. Richard Dawkins, world-famous evolutionary biologist and noted public champion of atheism, disagrees.
The last of the open-minded liberals can see what's coming : That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S. healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and vulnerable into the fold has been a high ideal and an urgent goal for most Democrats. But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that...
The " Dinosauroid ", the human-like product of a thought experiment about what the descendants of the dinosaur Troodon would look like today if the theropod had survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, is back. This time it has been invoked as an "I'm just sayin'..." defense by Richard Dawkins in a discussion about what life might be like on other planets. The article itself...
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A few weeks ago I watched through the 1980 series ‘Cosmos’, written and narrated by the master himself, Carl Sagan. It was re-released on DVD recently, and with western society’s infatuation with ‘popular science’, as made famous by the likes of Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough, I figured it was time to give it a watch. It [...] Related posts: Culture has stagnated...
Some read meat for readers, Malcolm Gladwell, Memes and Intellectual Honesty : Gladwell comes across as a child trying to explain why his hand was in the cookie jar. He advances a series of unconvincing, somewhat contradictory explanations, hoping that we will ignore the larger problem. So far as I can tell from Google searching, this strategy has worked; people have noted that Gladwell is talking...
Writes the always fascinating Camile Paglia: I was recently flicking my car radio dial and heard an affected British voice tinkling out on NPR. I assumed it was some fussy, gossipy opera expert fresh from London. To my astonishment, it was Richard Dawkins, the thrice-married emperor of contemporary atheists. I had never heard him speak, so [...]
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The Sun * has undertaken a rare venture into the worlds of philosophy and fundamental science. OK, it has the advantage of a couple of scientists with exotic names (to the Sun that is, we already know someone called Holger). These scientists have suggested that it is not the Large Hadron Collider itself, or even God, that is preventing the doom machine from working. No - it is scientists coming "...
Rent It Though many atheists are content to allow others to believe whatever they choose, there's a subset of so-called anti-theists who proselytize against theism with the zeal of medieval inquisitors. There's no better known anti-theist than evolutionary biologist and popular science writer Richard Dawkins. Dawkins, who was a principal subject of Jonathan Miller's BBC series The Atheism Tapes ,...
Over at The Flying Trilobite, Glendon Mellow posts five portraits of scientists/evolutionists, including Genie Scott, Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall, Craig Venter et moi. This was a task for his drawing course: This is the series Lights I began for my drawing course at York. Our project was to draw between 5 and 30 heads. [...]
The Case for a Creator, Chapter 6 In his frequently-maligned (but less-frequently read and understood) book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins offers what I think is an underappreciated argument against all varieties of supernatural design, the "Ultimate 747" argument. Briefly stated, it goes like this: If we accept ID advocates' reasoning, complexity and organization require a [...]
This is the series Lights I began for my drawing course at York. Ou r project was to draw between 5 and 30 heads. The idea and compositions I set for myself a re fairly simple. Draw portraits of living biologists, each with a light source on their heads, and incorporating a double helix form. I've shown Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter before here , and Jane Goodall here . This time I've included Eugenie...
TED India just ended, and the TED team is already off to the next exhilarating project. On November 12, 2009, TED and others will be unveiling the Charter for Compassion , a document about the core shared values and moral code of every world religion, the “Golden Rule.” The Charter is the result of 2008 TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong’s “wish” (if you haven’t read...
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