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Does this set a record for smug nastiness?
Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net - 22 August 2012 Comments
Tony Nicklinson died today. His appalling suffering is now at an end, no thanks whatsoever to our judges or our parliament. Obviously all decent people will feel glad for him, but I would add sorry...
Playboy Interview with Richard Dawkins
Chip Rowe - Playboy - 20 August 2012 Comments
Richard Dawkins, the patron saint of nonbelievers, caused a stir earlier this year during a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who noted that his opponent is often described as the world’s...
Richard Dawkins gets it right. Sarah Wollaston misunderstands.
Eric MacDonald - Choice in Dying - 20 August 2012 Comments
Richard Dawkins has put up a new essay on assisted dying over at richarddawkins.net , in response to the High Court’s decision in the case of Tony Nicklinson and someone named simply AM, who is...
[update to a previous article] Richard Dawkins: received in the Holy Land, reviled in the Highlands
Hamish MacDonnell - The Independent - 20 August 2012 Comments
Hardline Presbyterians furious at celebrity atheist's invitation to Hebridean book festival Prof Dawkins was asked because organisers felt his views should be given a platform within the...
Rats Manipulated to be Attracted to Cats
Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net - 19 August 2012 Comments
I devoted a whole chapter of The Extended Phenotype to parasites manipulating their hosts to assist the parasites into the next stage of their life cycle. There's a large literature on this, which...
WALK DARWIN’S TREE OF LIFE ~ 25 - 26 AUGUST 2012
- - Ancestors Trail Walk - 19 August 2012 Comments
The Ancestor’s Trail is a walking event combining hill walking, science and music. We invite you to join us on this ‘biological pilgrimage’ celebrating our shared origins with all life on Earth....
Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net - 17 August 2012 Comments
I can hardly bear to see poor Tony Nicklinson's face as he hears the news that he is not allowed to die. I am ashamed of my country and its laws. Here's part of The Independent's account ...
Stacy L. Memering,Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford,Todd K. Shackelford - Evolutionary Psychology - 16 August 2012 Comments
What’s Out There Now There are nearly a dozen books published by Richard Dawkins on the shelves today,each built with passion, eloquence, and facts to expand your mind and instill a fresh respect...
Refuting Richard: Dawkins Doesn’t “Get” God
Graham Veale - Saints & Sceptics? - 16 August 2012 Comments
Richard Dawkins seems to concede that God could make sense of the universe (see his interview with Alister McGrath ). However, he does not believe that theism is a good explanation because “God is...
Why I won't take part in debate with fundamentalists
Richard Dawkins - for the Press and Journal - 14 August 2012 Comments
I was invited several months ago to speak at the Faclan Book Festival in Stornoway and I was delighted to accept, as I have a great affection for the Highlands and Islands but have never visited...
Graham Hancock questions Richard Dawkins on psychedelics and challenging his world view
Graham Hannock - daily grail - 13 August 2012 Comments
Professor Richard Dawkins is best-known as a vociferous critic of religion and a champion for the cause of science. So much so that he is often attacked for being dogmatic himself, in...
Neil Ormerod - Religion and Ethics - 13 August 2012 Comments
In the preface to his best-selling book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins explains the fundamental reason for writing the book: "If this book works as I intend, the religious readers who open it...
British Humanists - YouTube - 08 August 2012 Comments
Humanism is sometimes mistaken for a form of religion, or something which is very complex. Here, some well known humanists explain that all humanism really is, is people wanting to live ethical and...
It's What Moral Philosophers Do
Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net - 08 August 2012 Comments
For a Polish translation see below Intellectuals must sometimes venture into realms of the counter-intuitive – and it may be unpopular. When I was debating Cardinal Archbishop Pell in Sydney, he...
Boycott call over Dawkins talk
Jane Candlish - The Press and Journal - 07 August 2012 Comments
People are being urged to boycott a talk by atheist Professor Richard Dawkins in the Western Isles heartland of the Free Church. The man whose best-selling book The God Delusion argues that belief...
The Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe is Proof of Natural Selection
- - Channel 4 (via GrrlScientist 2010) - 03 August 2012 Comments
This was previously posted in 2010 on rd.net. It's discussed in detail in both The Greatest Show on Earth and in Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True and is certainly worth watching - or watching...
The tragedy at the heart of New Atheism
Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith - CatholicHerald.co.uk - 03 August 2012 Comments
Belief in an ordered universe is hard to reconcile with a tragic view of life Richard Dawkins poses on a London bus displaying an atheist advertisement (PA) I remember sitting up and taking...
Richard Dawkins: an end to mythmaking?
Mark Vernon - The Guardian - 03 August 2012 Comments
So Paxman can dub myths 'hogwash', but not religion. Surely all myths do a similar job – it's just scientific ones don't last as long Richard Dawkins: 'is it not overly provocative to refer to...
Update - Twitter exchange - Hard Believer
First Aid Kit - YouTube - jagadambarecords - 02 August 2012 Comments
Twitter exchange between Richard Dawkins and First Aid Kit Klara and Johanna Soderberg, AKA First Aid Kit (17 and 19 respectively) have been gathering fans apace throughout 2009, since...
Russell - ThePrivateEye - 02 August 2012 Comments
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