I, like many people, grew up believing in god. This was not because I had been presented with any sufficient evidence, but because it was what everybody else believed. Up until my grandfather passed away several years ago, I was under the impression that this god I so blindly held faith in was a...
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First off thanks to all the responses I got to my post "Difficulties Believers Have with Science", lots of really interesting points made and I'm still going through it when I can find the time.
Just wanted to comment on RD's "Makes sense" post which I saw today and began reading....
I have become involved over the past few years in experimentation with and use of a drug called baclofen which is becoming widely used for the treatment of alcoholism and other addictions to drugs such as heroin and cocaine. It has also been found to be a very good treatment for autism and is...
It would appear the only reasonably justifiable answer to the healthy role of religion in society is always, and has always been, to provide a framework for the innate functions of conscience in healthy human beings to have a socially well organised footing, to do good within a society. That is...
It had to happen, this blog post. I did try putting it off but in the back of my mind, I knew it was coming. Repressing it any longer is not going to be very helpful, so here we go....I absolutely adore Richard Dawkins.
Like any self respecting 'believer', I used to hate him. That hate was...
The Foundation uses the term "evidence based" in its mission statement.
I am wondering what is meant by the word "evidence." And in light of whatever definition that you would offer, what is the Foundation's/your position on String Theory and Multiverse Theory?
Both relativity and quantum...
I have a question, since we hardly ever get sick from dogs, is that an evolutionary trait? Or an aquired trait? Have we evolved with dogs so that we have an aquired immunity.
I admire your work greatly. I have read nearly all of your books. You're my hero. You're the greatest person and the greatest scientist alive, today, in this very bleak world.
Natural selection, that's the Thing. And you, dear Mr. Dawkins, understand, the naturalistic fallacy, what is, that is...
Could you explain why I think exaclty like you ? And why some other doesn't think like me.
Is minds polymorphic arround the word, or is there several kind of mind ? This will probably solve by Cognitive science in the futur.
........................... idea.... Do we are like a State...
Me and my friend ( I am 34 he is 77 :-) ), we follow your work, and history of church and religions. The only thing we want to say to you is THANK YOU!!!!! Very much. But religion(s) affect-s people so deep that in some cases you cant not even imagine how deep.
I analysed my life and bad...
At a desk facing west drinking hot English tea,
Man sits scribbling by flicker in a notebook scribed “B”.
Stroking line after line with quill dipped in ink,
The tree of life springs and two words, “I think”.
He takes to the seas like a migrating seagull,
observing the world from the HMS...
I read The Selfish Gene when I was about 16, and that's probably the right age. I also had a couple of very very good Biology teachers that molded my brains to see evolution everywhere. Your books helped and I even considered becoming a biologist.
Now, I'm twice that age and still an atheist...