Richard Dawkins

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• ‘Atheist Mythology:’ or, Speaking Truth to Crazy

  
  kunochan.com — Authority: 111
  I have gone through several phases in my various ill-fated efforts to debate Creationists. At first, I made the freshman error of debating the facts, learning too late that theists have no interest in facts, and freely invent their own (as do conspiracy theorists and UFO believers). Then I switched to contempt ...
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• Richard Dawkins on Newsnight Review: Darwin Special

  
  Atheist Movies — Authority: 126
  Richard Dawkins, Man Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood, Reverend Richard Coles, and poet and great-great-grand-daughter of Charles Darwin Ruth Padel discuss the book, On the Origin of Species, which shook the world, and influenced art, culture, philosophy and religion. Broadcasted on September 11th, 2009, ...
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• The Quotable Dr Richard Dawkins

  
  Mike Tidmus : A blog from San Diego — Authority: 480
  “It is not particularly remarkable that a mountebank like Oral Roberts should succeed in conning his followers out of their money. As P T Barnum observed, there’s a sucker born every minute. If people are that stupid and choose to hand over their money to an obvious fake, that is their privilege. What should ...
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• Victor Stenger Speaks Out!

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 423
  The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason ( Victor J. Stenger /Prometheus Books/Amazon.com; 282 pages; published Sept 22, 2009) PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, ...
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• Impatience with Frank Schaeffer

  
  Bloc Raisonneur — Authority: 116
  In my role as an atheist blogger and columnist , I dont think its enough to simply exist in the poles. That is, I cant limit myself to reaction to and analysis of a) those I agree with and b) those to whom I am diametrically opposed. There is a lot of mushy room in the middle, and sometimes the most difficult thing ...
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• Responding to Hitchens on Chanukah

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 115
  In the typical fashion that have made Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins into heroes among those who hate (sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not) the religions of the world, we get below Hitchens distortions endorsed by Dawkins. The approach is typical: a religious view is mis-described and distorted, then ...
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• Some thoughts regarding religion, and two songs...

  
  Yer Sweet Chimneys — Authority: 123
  A Song Lets begin with a song. Its a good one.... Along the Line - To Kill a Pet... Some Thoughts Regarding Religion Ill be moving to Greenpoint soon, so I thought Id share some thoughts that have been swimming around my head since reading some lectures by a Polish novelist and ...
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• Audio clips and post-debate interviews from latest Dawkins debate

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 538
  From the latest episode of the Unbelievable radio show. The MP3 file is here . Justin has a lot of audio clips of the speeches and Q&A from the debate. This was a public debate. He also conducts post-debate interviews with one of the speakers, and some of the people in the audience. The people representing ...
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• Great Minds in Modern Science Writing Don’t All Think Alike

  
  GeekDad — Authority: 710
  (Image: Oxford University Press) I have often wanted to sink my teeth into real writing by real scientists, but I don’t feel qualified to dig through the endless of pages of writing to find snippets that get to the point. I don’t have time to read entire books or papers on subjects that are way over my head. So ...
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• Presents for the Godless: the 13 Days of Atheist Christmas

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 552
  From The Telegraph : Don’t believe in God, but want to celebrate Christmas anyway? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Here are 13 suitable gifts for the heretic. It’s not unreasonable to want to enjoy Christmas despite not believing in all the stuff about virgin birth and angels. A lack of faith doesn’t ...
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• Richard Dawkins on the “religious” experiences of atheists

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 477
  Starting at the 55 second mark of this short video , Richard Dawkins describes the “religious” experience of atheists.   As I listened, I realized that what Dawkins was describing very much resembled my own feelings of awe, an appreciation that I am somehow alive to experience an extraordinary world. Related ...
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• Man of Science, Man of Faith III: …And The Road Goes Ever Onward

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 103
  A couple of interesting articles passed my desk recently, coupled with the reading of a number of equally-interesting books, which inspired me to cobble together the latest in this series of my efforts to reconcile the ever-yawning gap between science and religion, and how that affects both Western and global culture ...
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• Philosopher Thomas Nagel Replies to New Atheist “widespread intolerance of any challenge to the dogma that everything in the world must be ultimately explainable by chemistry and physics.”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  After taking quite a pummeling  among the New Atheist blogs, philosopher Thomas Nagel has responded, in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement, to one critic in particular—chemist Stephen Fletcher—who himself wrote a letter to the Times. Here’s Nagel’s reply to Fletcher (in full): Sir, – Stephen ...
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• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 133
  The Top 29 chalkboard gags from The Simpsons , thoughtfully compiled with images. Funny stuff, but what happened to “It’s ‘potato,’ not ‘potatoe,’” the show’s tribute to the administration that early on provided it with so much material . Lance Mannion reads Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel and ...
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• Let’s say a Prayer for Richard Dawkins this Christmas!

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 427
  HT: Martin I’m reminded of 1 Corinthians 1:19: It’s written, I’ll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I’ll expose so-called experts as crackpots. ( The Message ) That God would do a number on him, and somehow, he’ll begin to follow the lead of Antony Flew—an ex-atheist. Posted in Atheism, ...
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• Roundup

  
  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters — Authority: 423
  Polar bears are not vanishing  – it is just another part of the ClimateGate lies.  — One more time, people: President Obama did not inherit all this deficit .  Congress  — you know, the group that Obama was a member of – passed the 2008 budget. — Good reminder about not using the Lord’s name in ...
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• How the Dawkins Stole Christmas

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  By Dr. Deuss *   Every Jones down in Jonestown liked Jesus a lot, But the Dawkins, who lived on Mt. Oxford, did not That Darwinian Dickens said “God’s Putative Son, Was merely a mortal! Just some son of a gun!”     Who knows why the Dawkins became such a skeptic But the hymns and the ...
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• Richard Dawkins this weekend on BookTV

  
  Tony's curricublog — Authority: 115
  Richard Dawkins will be on BookTV (C-SPAN2) this weekend.Click here to find the book at a library near you.Click here for the Web page at BookTV.Here’s the preliminary information (but note: Last weekend the daytime schedule was pre-empted by the unusual weekend proceedings of the U.S. Senate. C-SPAN2 was created to ...
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• Why Richard Dawkins Won’t Debate Craig: “I’m Busy”

  
  Thinking Matters Talk — Authority: 468
  Richard Dawkins responds to the question at the recent Intelligence Squared debate at Wellington College in Berkshire, over his refusal to engage with prominent philosopher of religion, William Lane Craig. HT: Gil S at the new Rational Thoughts blog
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• LOST FAITH… AND THE JOURNEY BACK

  
  thelesbianlifestyle.com — Authority: 464
  Hot: We all knew it wouldn’t be long before religion reared its head in this forum of my self-expression. Much to some people’s disbelief this will not be the blog where I take out my axe and chip away at the organized forms of expressing religious beliefs and the very existence of God or ...
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