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Edge @ DLD: Life: A gene-centric View

February 6th, 2008

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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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 [...]

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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

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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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