Source: richarddawkins.net
Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter.
Source: RichardDawkins.net
Richard Dawkins writes a letter to a man who has just seen the movie, "Expelled." The man writes to Michael Shermer originally, "Now I truly understand who you atheists and darwinists really are! You people believe that it was okay for my great-grandparents to die in the Holocaus …
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Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film's sequel.
Source: yearofevolution.org
With the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, originator of the modern theory of evolution, just months away, the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with Penn Museum and joined by major Philadelphia cultural organizations, launches an ambitious YEAR OF EVOLUT …
Source: New Statesman Contents
Religious Right UK Bishop of Durham Tom Wright's literal belief in the Resurrection makes him a hero to conservative Christians worldwide. Here he declares war on militant atheists and liberals.
Source: Salon.com
Fodder for the newsvine debate between theologists and atheologists - dig in! From Salon.com: An interview Foreign correspondent and intellectual provocateur Chris Hedges explains why New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens are as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists.
Source: ScienceBlogs
That, minus the question mark, is the title of a new article by theologian John Haught in the current issue of The Christian Century. The subtitle is "Why the New Atheism isn't Serious." Sadly, the article does not seem to be available online.
I remember when I was young fearing hell, the wrath of god, swearing, etc., etc., etc ... . As an adult I began reading, understanding, and coming to grips of what this god really was.
Source: New Statesman Contents
Outstanding UK evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins (Oxford University): 25 December is the birthday of one of one of the world's greatest men, Sir Isaac Newton. "Happy Newton Day!"
Source: Town Hall
If you haven't seen my "God v. Atheism" debate with philosopher Daniel Dennett, you can view it at Tothesource.org. You should read the comments in response to the debate both on my AOL blog as well as on the atheist site richarddawkins.net.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
A Turkish prosecutor is considering whether to prosecute the Turkish publisher of Richard Dawkins' bestselling atheist polemic, The God Delusion, on the grounds that it incites religious hatred.
Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" describes how the evolution of Man's behaviour (e.g. altruism) is through DNA-constructed Genes (Genetic Evolution) and through socially-transmitted Ideas or Memes (Memetic Evolution).
A few weeks back I attended a "campus crossfire" (an open forum debate) at my university on the topic of religion and morality.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
RANCHO SANTE FE, Calif. - Religion has faced formidable foes in its history. But atheism hasn't generally been one of them - until today. A recent string of best-selling books has put believers of all stripes on the defensive.
Source: Town Hall
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, watched the debate and reported with some agitation that the audience seemed to be applauding more for me than for Hitchens. Dawkins commented on his website that the New York crowd must have been a "dopey" lot.
Source: city-journal.org
The British parliament's first avowedly atheist member, Charles Bradlaugh, would stride into public meetings in the 1880s, take out his pocket watch, and challenge God to strike him dead in 60 seconds. God bided his time, but got Bradlaugh in the end.
In a recent report out of one American university students were advised not to debate with creationists about the origins of life. Debates have become a great medium just to bring the latest findings of creationism to the table.
Source: The L.A. Times
Voltaire and his colleagues attacked the dominant values of their day, at great risk to themselves. By almost comical contrast, the new anti-religionists are safely needling the dominant liberal culture's favorite bete noire.
Source: The Washington Post
To begin, I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge just how strange it is that a meeting like this is even necessary.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
What the media wants is polemic not reasonable exploration of complex issues - does Dawkins resist that tendency or play up to it? He clearly has a huge vested interest in doing the latter because it has made him a fortune out of booksales.
Source: Sciam
Since the turn of the millennium, a new militancy has arisen among religious skeptics in response to three threats to science and freedom: (1) attacks against evolution education and stem cell research; (2) breaks in the barrier separating church and state leading to political pr …
Source: biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com
To correctly shelve pseudo-scientific junk to the appropriate parts of bookstores. When it comes to "Intelligent Design", booksellers seem especially confused. I aim to help bookstores as much as I can in my capacity as friendly, local biologist.
Source: recursed.blogspot.com
This article by Peter Berkowitz, who teaches law at George Mason, and is a "senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution", is no exception. How many lies can you find?
Source: lockergnome.com
This seems to be a very popular question to debate at present - with the recent release of books from the likes of Dawkins and Hitchens. However, the question I want to ask is why is it that we humans can only feel good when we are attacking something or someone else?
Source: The Humanist
The 1996 Humanist of the Year asked this question in a speech accepting the honor from the American Humanist Association. It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made …