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• Meet Richard Dawkins’s God

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  In my reading of William Dembski’s latest, The End of Christianity: Find a Good God in an Evil World, I was introduced to the god of Richards, famed neo-atheist and professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University:The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all ...
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• Richard Dawkins on Thinking Matters

  
  MandM — Authority: 125
  According to Richard Dawkins , New Zealand apologetics blog, Thinking Matters Talk , “makes for some interesting browsing.” The recommendation of Rob Ward’s blog post, Sarfati reviews Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ , has seen a deluge traffic arrive. (This pleases us because we are part of ...
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• The Theological Implications of Finding Alien Extra-Terrestial Life

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 115
  I have already addressed this in several places- here, and here - so I won’t dwell on things much.  Instead, I want to reflect on an article I just read regarding the Vatican participating in an astrobiology conference to discuss the question. In my previous posts, I argued that if aliens appeared, they might ...
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• Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth (Video)

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 584
  Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God’s existence. Now, in The Greatest Show on Earth , Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of “Intelligent Design” that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the ...
  3 days ago

• Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Today in Salon, Camille Paglia , an atheist who obviously hasn’t been paying much serious attention to the post 9/11 New Atheist movement, stumbled upon Richard Dawkins talking about religion on NPR, and having never heard his voice before, she thought he sounded a bit, well, ridiculous:   I was recently ...
  4 days ago

• Atheism as ‘Gateway Drug’ to Drifting Away

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 115
  As of this writing, I am facilitating a course/discussion regarding the decline of Christianity in America .  Someone made a point in the discussion that is similar to one I’ve made previously… but I can’t find where I made it so I’m making it anew.  The question begins with a look at the measured ...
  4 days ago

• Friends or Foes?

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 547
  A new report from the Pew Research Centers Forum on Religion & Public Life takes a look at what it calls the seemingly "paradoxical" relationship between science and religion. According to the report, many surveys show that Americans respect science...
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• Uiteindelik dan, my mening oor godsdiens in die skole

  
  A Different View of Reality — Authority: 116
  So poog ek nou al lank om nié iets oor hierdie emosioneel-belaaide onderwerp te skrywe nie. Ek lees by ander plekke staaltjies hieroor, en dit is duidelik menings verskil (Google dit maar alles...
  5 days ago

• Darwins Brave New World (Episode 1) Origins

  
  Atheist Movies — Authority: 118
  "Evolution was damned as being anti-God and anti-science, because its creation by natural law, not acts of God." The theory of evolution by natural selection was the most radical idea in the conservative England of the 19th century. Darwin spent years working in secret, painstakingly piecing together proof of his ...
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• Video: Frank Schaeffer and the fears of fundamentalism

  
  Life Without Faith — Authority: 133
  As a follow-up to my Weekly Rant: Frank Schaeffer and New Atheist Fundamentalists , I present an interview Laura Flanders did with Schaeffer for GRITtv. From the  web description : Schaeffer has a new book now, Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism) , and in it he takes on ...
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• The Blind Watchmaker - Documentary

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 426
  An excellent documentary on Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker .
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• Dawkins vs. Tyson

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 153
  I had absolutely no idea that Richard Dawkins was this cool.
  6 days ago

• Michael Ruse, an Atheist, on Why He Hasn’t Signed Up with the New Atheists (or Confidence Atheists)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Daniel Dennett. PZ Myers. Richard Dawkins. Jerry Coyne. Philosopher Michael Ruse is an atheist too. But don’t sign him up with the above confidence atheists. Why? Here’s one reason that he gave in a recent essay in the UK’s Guardian: [H]ow dare we be so condescending? I don’t have faith. I really ...
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• Scientists win place for evolution in primary schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  The government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists. The schools minister, Diana Johnson, has confirmed the plans will be included in a blueprint for a new curriculum to be published in the next few weeks. It follows a letter signed by ...
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• The Case for Karen Armstrong

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  If you open Karen Armstrongs new book, The Case for God , expecting to find a list of mysterious cures, scientific curiosities, or certified miracles all pointing toward the physical presence of a divine influence in the world, you will be sorely disappointed.  Armstrong has no interest in, and is in fact completely ...
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• Quickhit: Michael Shermer video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  This video was published by the Richard Dawkins Foundation in June this year. The original kit was published as Chapter 12: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection in Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (ISBN 0-394-53512-X / ISBN 0-345-40946-9). This site from the Australian ...
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• Transcript of the Interview of Richard Dawkins By Ben Stein in the Film Expelled

  
  Darwinian Fundamentalism — Authority: 109
  This is a partial text of the interview of Richard Dawkins by Ben Stein in the film Expelled. This is the key section in which Richard Dawkins acknowledges that it is possible to find evidence of design in biology, and that it could have been seeded here by a "higher intelligence" from elsewhere in the ...
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• Schism in Atheism? Who believes less?

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 543
  Dawkins et al bring us into disrepute. There’s a schism alright, and I seem to find myself on the unfashionable side of it - Michael Ruse The question: Is there an atheist schism? As a professional philosopher my first question naturally is: “What or who is an atheist?” If you mean someone who absolutely and ...
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• Why Evolution Is True

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  Here’s another great video from the recent AAI Convention. It’s a presentation by Jerry Coyne based on his recently published book “Why Evolution Is True .” I haven’t read it yet but it has had great reviews. Jerry describes it as complimentary to Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth . ...
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• Will E.T. Look Like Us?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 584
  Michael Shermer asks an imponderable question in Scientific American Magazine : What are the odds that intelligent, technically advanced aliens would look anything like the ones in films, with an emaciated torso and limbs, spindly fingers and a bulbous, bald head with large, almond-shaped eyes? What are the odds ...
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