Link: sevenload.com Edge 235, Life a Gene-Centric View. Craig Venter & Richard Dawkins: A Conversation in Munich: “It’s not everyday you have Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter on a stage talking for an hour about “Life: A Gene-Centric View”. That it occured in Germany, where the culture has been resistant to open discussion of genetics, [...]
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Edge @ DLD: Life: A gene-centric View
February 6th, 2008
Tags: biology · craig venter · dna · edge · evolution · richard dawkins
The Four Horsemen
December 24th, 2007
The Four Horsemen – Hour 1 The Four Horsemen – Hour 2 RichardDawkins.net, The Four Horsemen: on Christmas: “All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion – some positive, and some negative. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent [...]
Tags: atheism · christopher hitchens · daniel dennett · religion · richard dawkins · sam harris
Richard Dawkins on Christopher Hitchkins’ God Is Not Great
September 6th, 2007
Richard Dawkins reviewing Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great in the Times Literary Supplement. Bible belter: “If you are a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitchens, decline. His witty repartee, his ready-access store of historical quotations, his bookish eloquence, his effortless flow of well-formed words, beautifully spoken in that formidable Richard Burton voice [...]
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Slaves To Superstition
August 20th, 2007
Volkskrant: “Tarotkaarten, horoscopen en zelfontwikkelingscursussen. In de zoektocht naar werk zijn al deze instrumenten – op kosten van uitkeringsinstantie UWV – geoorloofd.” (…) “Zot, vinden de SP, het CDA en de ChristenUnie.” (sic!) Richard Dawkins, The Enemies Of Reason, Part 1 – Slaves To Superstition Channel 4: Enemies of Reason
Tags: delusion · new age · nl · politics · religion · richard dawkins · uwv · video
Michel Onfray, In Defence of Atheism
July 28th, 2007
While Dawkins makes a strong case for why one doesn’t require a thorough grounding in theology to refute religious certainties (you don’t need to be an expert in fairyology to dispute the existence of fairies), and Hitchens draws on his acute observational skills and tireless globetrotting to report on the way “religion poisons everything” – [...]
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