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Richard Dawkins slaps creationists into the primordial soup (Times Online)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:51:05 GMT

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A revelatory event (Covenant Zone)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:34:00 GMT

If you haven't yet seen the video spoofing Richard Dawkins and the amazing response of Dawkins and his crowd in not knowing they were being spoofed, see Mark Shea's excellent summary: Not So Bright | Catholic Exchange This is one of those events which show us things we half knew but could never entirely grasp without the revelatory power of the event. Now, the whole Dawkins/atheist...

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How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not (Darwiniana)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:46:26 GMT

How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins,

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Anglo-Saxon vs. Latin Atheists (西儒 ─ The Western Confucian)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:42:00 GMT

A post of mine earlier today — Atheist Expects Straw Man, Finds Instead Rigorous Two-Millennia-Old Intellectual Tradition (and Redemption) — has got me thinking. Why is that the Richard Dawkins es, the Sam Harris es, and the Christopher Hitchens es, indeed the Paul Z. Myers es, are all unwilling to honestly tackle the intellectual tradition that they oppose and instead resort to juvenile...

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How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not (Uncommon Descent)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:36:02 GMT

Coming this October… Book description: “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows that atheism must seek intellectual fulfillment elsewhere by decisively demonstrating the need for intelligence in explaining life’s origin. This is the best overview...

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Richard Dawkins: Information Theory Podcast Week Seven (OUPblog)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:35:54 GMT

Richard Dawkins talks about Claude Shannon and information theory.

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A Nice Green Leaf: Points memes prizes (IndyBlogs)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:22:58 GMT

By Emma Townshend Anyone who's read the Selfish Gene may already be familiar with the word "meme" - Richard Dawkins invented it to describe a piece of cultural behaviour which evolves by principles of selection, just like a biological entity...

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Richard Dawkins is smarter than you (The Shotgun)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:15:19 GMT

Mark Shea at Catholic Exchange tells the lurid tale of how Richard Dawkins, biologist and atheist extraordinaire just doesn't seem to understand when he's being lampooned. At issue is the video embedded below, entitled "Beware the Believers." If you hate...

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Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya (3quarksdaily)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:07:58 GMT

Richard Dawkins at his website: In 2006, I was one of tens of thousands of academic scientists all around the world who received, unsolicited and completely free, a huge and lavishly illustrated book called Atlas of Creation by the Turkish...

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God Is A Concept (Groanin' Jock)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Following my recent change from car-bound commuter drone to train-bound commuter drone, I've found myself given far more time to read books, and as a result I'm getting through an average of a book a week. Yesterday, I finished The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It's a book that's currently in vogue, and it seems to be striking a chord with a sizeable portion of society (in Britain...

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Pat Condell On Secularphobia (Joe. My. God.)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:55:00 GMT

Catching up on my YouTube subscriptions, I watched this latest post from my favorite anti-theist , Pat Condell . A one-time stand-up comedian, Condell is much more appealing to me than rant kings Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins. Still, I'm almost surprised that his famous 2007 post, The Trouble With Islam , hasn't gotten him killed. Subscribe.

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The emergence of the Conservative Humanist Association (Phil Slocombe)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:30:12 GMT

Full coverage of UK politics News of a potentially controversial new faction emerging inside the Tory Party: the Conservative Humanist Association. The group will officially launch at the party's conference in the autumn, where leading atheist Richard Dawkins will speak at its inaugural meeting. Jeff Peel, the CHA's founding chairman, tells me that the organisatio...

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Enemies of Reason (Red Tory) (Progressive Bloggers)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:42:00 GMT

The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. The documentary was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK last year, styled as a loose successor to Dawkinsâ documentary of the previous year about religion, The Root of All Evil? Is it rational that the dead [...]

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Atheist rejects neo-atheism (Crunchy Con)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:19:55 GMT

P.Z. Myers and his sort have managed to convert Freddie the Atheist into an anti-atheist. Oh, Freddie's not suddenly a theist. Here's what he means: If someone was a political commentator, and operated the way Meyers, Richard Dawkins, or Christopher...

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More Framing Dust (faith in honest doubt)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Wow. Frame-master Nisbet has really outdone himself with this post on The Great Wafer Crisis of 2008; let me count the ways: Even as he trolls with concern over the state of scienceblogs , the photo at the top of the post shows PZ Myers standing next to Richard Dawkins. While PZ Myers is a leading contributor to scienceblogs, Richard Dawkins has nothing to do with scienceblogs....

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On PZ, Don Imus Atheism, and "Atheistblogs.com"? (Framing Science)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:10:20 GMT

Myers with Richard Dawkins: Does his atheist punditry damage the scienceblogs.com brand? Call me agnostic on the controversy that has erupted over the Catholic wafer incident in Florida. On the one hand I see the outcry from conservative groups as opportunistic and ridiculous. The reported death threats are outrageous, should be condemned by all parties, and prosecuted to the full extent...

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15 Kinds of Atheism (The Secular Outpost)

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:50:00 GMT

I have previously pointed out that the word “God” is ambiguous in Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion . This oversimplifies the situation a bit, because a close reading of The God Delusion reveals a reference to at least fifteen different kinds of atheism. So, before I go into critique of Dawkins’ main argument, I will briefly spell out these fifteen different kinds of atheism....

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Off Topic: “Faith & Healing: Where’s the Evidence?” (Uncommon Descent)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:57:07 GMT

Here’s something I wrote for the Baptist Press about faith healer Todd Bentley. Unlike Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, James Randi, and the skeptical community in general, I don’t throw out all miraculous healings. Indeed, I think they are far more prevalent than we ordinarily imagine. At the same time, we need to guard against wishful [...]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Stupid Design (haha.nu)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:21:36 GMT

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s thoughts on Intelligent Design. Richard Dawkins in the audience. @ haha.nu.

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Myers desecrates communion wafer, begs for help (Darwiniana)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:49:17 GMT

PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS by Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Pharyngula Myers complains that religion makes people stupid, he’s right, and it works both ways. This is a plea for support after Myers plays his pranks, to wit, about descrating a communion host in the maximum attempt to be offensive. I can support free speech, but there [...]

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