1. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150009 by robhowe on March 26, 2008 at 11:53 am

Just started my annual re-read of 'Unweaving the Rainbow'. Have a great birthday and may your rainbow never unravel. Confusion to Mathis, obscurity to 'Expelled', and many happy returns of today!

2. Richard Dawkins on 'Have Your Say'

Comment #95897 by robhowe on December 9, 2007 at 12:34 pm

The BBC team had done their homework well; they selected a good range of callers to trot out the time-weary arguments of design and morality, as well as a couple who just babbled typically obscurantist theist tripe. It was clear that very few of the callers had read TGD. Splendid performance as always from RD, especially his admirable refusal to respond to the meaningless postmodernist drivel spouted by one caller.

3. In the name of the Father

Comment #52762 by robhowe on June 28, 2007 at 3:01 am

Inadvertently or wilfully, Baron Harries makes the mistake of accusing Hitchens of attacking and alienating people rather than people's misguided beliefs. Belief is not an integral part of its holder. Beliefs can change. To assume that they cannot, and that we must continue to pander to those who promulgate baseless nonsense or the world will become more dangerous, is an act of craven intellectual cowardice.