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Richard Dawkins slaps Christians into the primordial soup

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Friedrich Braun
on August 8, 2008
in Atheism/Agnosticism, Christianity , Creationism, Dawkins, Intelligent Design and Kooks
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Richard Dawkins is that rare specimen, a public intellectual, a knight of the mind who goes into battle against the ignorance and foolhardiness of the populace. Unlike the French, who worship their public intellectuals, giving them pet names such as les intellos, and airing them regularly on serious television and in print, the British like to shove academics into a musty corner, or laugh at them. This was not always the case: the Victorians, with their public lectures and royal societies, gloried in debate and celebrated the thrills of fresh knowledge. The nearest we get to this now is celebrating the thrill of Germaine Greer walking out of Celebrity Big Brother.

Atheist Richard Dawkins Interview on Canadian T.V. [Part I of VII]

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Friedrich Braun
on May 28, 2008
in Books , Christianity , Dawkins, Evolution and Religion
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The God Delusion

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Friedrich Braun
on January 15, 2008
in Books and Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins on The Late Edition with Marcus Brigstocke

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Friedrich Braun
on January 10, 2008
in Dawkins
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Happy Newton Day!

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Friedrich Braun
on December 14, 2007
in Atheism/Agnosticism, Dawkins, Religion and Science & Technology
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Do you still believe in stupid, juvenile, and absurd fairy tales, White man? If so, GROW UP!

December 25th is a date to celebrate not because it is the disputed birthday of the “son of God” but because it is the actual birthday of one of the world’s greatest men.

Dawkins’ publisher faces jail over ‘atheist manifesto’

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Friedrich Braun
on December 8, 2007
in Atheism/Agnosticism, Books , Crime, Dawkins, Islam & Islamification , Law and Religion
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Richard Dawkins’ best-selling atheist manifesto The God Delusion was at the centre of a growing row over religious tolerance yesterday after the Turkish publishers of his book were threatened with legal action by prosecutors who accuse it of ‘insulting believers’.

Richard Dawkins Speaks Up on Jewish Power

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Friedrich Braun
on October 7, 2007
in Dawkins, Jewish Diaspora , The Jewish Question, U.S. Politics , White Nationalism and World Affairs
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When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told - religious Jews anyway - than atheists and [yet they] more or less monopolise American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world would be a better place.

Bible belter

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Friedrich Braun
on September 6, 2007
in Books , Dawkins, Religion and Science & Technology
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There is much fluttering in the dovecots of the deluded, and Christopher Hitchens is one of those responsible. Another is the philosopher A. C. Grayling. I recently shared a platform with both. We were to debate against a trio of, as it turned out, rather half-hearted religious apologists (“Of course I don’t believe in a God with a long white beard, but . . .”). I hadn’t met Hitchens before, but I got an idea of what to expect when Grayling emailed me to discuss tactics. After proposing a couple of lines for himself and me, he concluded, “. . . and Hitch will spray AK47 ammo at the enemy in characteristic style”.

Watch Richard Dawkins speak on CFI’s recent cruise to the Galapagos Islands

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Friedrich Braun
on July 5, 2007
in Books , Dawkins and Evolution
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Inferior Design

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Friedrich Braun
on July 2, 2007
in Atheism/Agnosticism, Books , Christianity , Creationism, Dawkins, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Kooks and Science & Technology
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I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe’s second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him. The first — “Darwin’s Black Box” (1996), which purported to make the scientific case for “intelligent design” — was enlivened by a spark of conviction, however misguided. The second is the book of a man who has given up. Trapped along a false path of his own rather unintelligent design, Behe has left himself no escape. Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. And real science, in the shape of his own department of biological sciences at Lehigh University, has publicly disowned him, via a remarkable disclaimer on its Web site: “While we respect Prof. Behe’s right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific.” As the Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne wrote recently, in a devastating review of Behe’s work in The New Republic, it would be hard to find a precedent.

IHR News and Comment

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Friedrich Braun
on June 9, 2007
in Dawkins and Revisionism
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