Tag: Dawkins

Richard Dawkins called him a “compliant quisling” for accepting the Templeton Prize. Here, Martin Rees explains his decision.

A description of a talk Richard Dawkins gave at the University of Maryland.

Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, writes a belated book review of Dawkins’s book “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”.

Martin Rees, one of Britain’s most eminent scientists sparked controversy overnight by accepting a $1.63 million prize for contributions to life’s spiritual dimension.

An event for atheists at a military base, which had been previously scuttled by commanders, prompting charges of discrimination against atheism, is now being re-considered.

A settlement has been reached in the case of creationist astronomer Martin Gaskell, who was passed over as the director of the new observatory for the University of Kentucky, and who sued the university for religious discrimination.

An homage to Christopher Hitchens by Richard Dawkins.

The pope’s attack on atheists and secularists was disgraceful and redolent of the sound of stones hurled within a glass house.

Gutting tries to back up his assertion that Richard Dawkins’s assertions in The God Delusion are “demonstrably false”.

A group of scientists, including Richard Dawkins, have called upon the U.K.‘s new government to make it compulsory to teach evolution in school.

Atheists say that the National Academy of Sciences should not lend its prestige to the Templeton Prize by hosting the award ceremony.

Article criticizes “Non-Believers Giving Aid,” Richard Dawkins’s efforts to promote secular giving, as grounded in a “self-serving ethos”.

After squashing Darwin deniers and God-botherers with bestselling tomes including The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins is set to tackle what might be his hardest audience yet: teenagers.

The well-known scientist and atheist has struck a book deal for his first title for young adults, which will look to explode myths and legends about the natural world with science. Due out in autumn 2011, What is a Rainbow, Really? will take on topics including who the first man and first woman were, why there are seasons, what the sun is, how old the world is and why there are so many animals, first answering the questions with myth and legend, and then with “lucid scientific explanations”.

Kris Hartung argues that atheists should abandon talk of God all together and take a different approach. He argues the talk of God legitimizes the concept further and creates an “either or” scenario that is hurting the chances of progress.

GIVE Richard Dawkins a child for a week’s summer camp and he will try to give you an atheist for life. The author of The God Delusion is helping to launch Britain’s first summer retreat for non-believers, where children will have lessons in evolution and sing along to John Lennon’s Imagine.

Fish attempts to counter the backlash of non-theist comments from part 1.