I had originally posted my quick review of the iPad ebook/app version of Richard Dawkins book “The Magic of reality” in the iTunes store a few days ago (late October) but, for whatever reason, the review has not shown up there. I have therefore taken the opportunity to post that review here albeit with this [...]
I do have Jerry Coyne’s book “Why Evolution Is True” and it’s a fantastic book. I’ve also read “The Greatest Show on Earth” by Richard Dawkins and this is a natural partner to Coyne’s book with a fair amount of overlap but both complementary to each other. Here’s a talk by Coyne with an introduction [...]
This is just hilarious! Thomas Jackson’s article is one of the most idiotic things I’ve seen in a mainstream newspaper. He does seem to have a Dawkins obsession too and is, perhaps, a bit too deep in his delusions and conceit. Anyway, the article was a good laugh! Richard Dawkins, the Protestant atheist http://richarddawkins.net/articles/589448-richard-dawkins-the-protestant-atheist Article [...]
Here’s the full speech that Dawkins had originally planned to deliver: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/521113-ratzinger-is-an-enemy-of-humanity Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
Is that Pharyngula being nasty to you again? There, there. Have a cookie. Here’s a man basing his morality, his way of live, on that hilariously hideous book called the Bible. The more I look at that book, the more I find it incredible that anyone can take it seriously (the Koran is just as [...]
Why Evolution Is True does a deconstruction of a flawed BioLogos article. Having read the rather desperate arguments in the BioLogos article I thought “Why did BioLogos even bother?”. Then I realised, BioLogos is nothing more than a religious forum, heavily slanted towards Judeo-Christianity, where people interpret scientific evidence with a God slant, where people [...]
A Panda’s Thumb article “Why science literacy is in trouble” discusses how a Canadian Assistant Professor of Science Education (Katarin MacLeod, Assistant Professor in Science Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS) deliberately(?) misleads by, for example, stating that evolution is only a “theory” for which there is not much evidence otherwise it [...]
With news that Bill Gates has bought the rights from the BBC for some 1964 lectures given by Richard Feynman, in the discussions over at RichardDawkins.net a video clip was posted of Feynman explaining science through an analogy of observing a game of chess. Nature of Science – Feynman’s analogy of science and chess [...]
Spotted this over at http://richarddawkins.net/article,3770,n,n with the full article at http://www.slate.com/id/2216518/ The article(s) and comments certainly raise some important questions. Many years ago I was in support of Turkey becoming a full member of the EU. But Turkey has not made any significant progress in terms of basic human rights such as freedom of speech. [...]
