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• Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  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 ...
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• Atheism as ‘Gateway Drug’ to Drifting Away

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• Friends or Foes?

  
  Science and the Sacred — Authority: 537
  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: 117
  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...
  1 day ago

• Darwins Brave New World (Episode 1) Origins

  
  Atheist Movies — Authority: 117
  "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: 132
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• The Blind Watchmaker - Documentary

  
  Reflections on Value Investing — Authority: 424
  An excellent documentary on Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker .
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• Dawkins vs. Tyson

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 152
  I had absolutely no idea that Richard Dawkins was this cool.
  2 days ago

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

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Scientists win place for evolution in primary schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• The Case for Karen Armstrong

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 811
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Quickhit: Michael Shermer video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Transcript of the Interview of Richard Dawkins By Ben Stein in the Film Expelled

  
  Darwinian Fundamentalism — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Schism in Atheism? Who believes less?

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 498
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Why Evolution Is True

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 523
  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 . ...
  6 days ago

• Will E.T. Look Like Us?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Theologian Richard Dawkins in New Zealand for 2010 International Arts Festival

  
  The Dunedin School — Authority: 527
  Ok, I was just playing with the ‘theologian’ title there. But in recent years, Richard Dawkins has certainly been a big bad kitty running amok in the theological rooster coop. So he may be more deserving of the title than the dull defenders of dogma. The news is that Richard Dawkins will be winging his way to ...
  6 days ago

• Life’s Value

  
  An Apostate's Chapel — Authority: 413
  I finally started reading The Greatest Show on Earth last week. As I read the chapter on embryology a couple of nights ago, I couldn’t help marveling at how amazing life is in all its forms. Religionists often claim that their views enhance the value of life, particularly human life, because all of it has been ...
  6 days ago

• Dawkins in your ear

  
  Digital Sextant — Authority: 129
  The God Delusionby Richard Dawkins; narrated by Lalla Ward and the authorSo in my quest to read a variety of books about spirituality, God, and more, I just finished listening to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion.  Dawkins wields some strong rhetorical arguments about religious belief.  A few thoughts:He’s at ...
  1 week ago

• Richard Dawkins in Wellington next March

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 523
  Auckland got Richard Dawkins by video this year when he announced the winner of the inaugural Royal Society NZ science Book of the Year award. Next March Wellington will get him in person. Dawkins will be speaking during the Writers and Readers Week at the NZ International Arts Festival. Details (evening of ...
  1 week ago

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