I gave this book to my son and read it with great pleasure too. A terrific achievement by Richard Dawkins. Now I was wondering if there exists a similar type of book with regard to Mathematics (in contrast to science in general). Has Marcus du Sautoy, Dawkins successor, written anything alike? Preferably in or translated into Dutch, but English is fine as well. Thanks for your advice.
I hope this childrens book discusses the theory of evolution, and not the leftist egalitarian version, the real version... where black people are less evolved
@Ikhwanalsafa sure, it is called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by a guy named Chucky Darwin
@Ikhwanalsafa sooo... are you new to the theory of human evolution? Let me tell you whats going on in the scientific world, they feed the public a watered down version of human evolution, because the REAL version promotes genocide. They would prefer everyone remain ignorant on the subject until biologists can come up with the technology to fix the less evolved.
@Ikhwanalsafa read the book again. Darwin made many comments whites verse black. he was far less rascist as his counter parts of the time, but he makes some pretty ridiculous commentary. "The Blacks came from the gorillas, the Whites from the chimpanzees, and the Orientals from the orangutans, and it is for this reason that some races are superior ..." Darwin
@Ikhwanalsafa read the book again. Darwin made many comments whites verse black. he was far less rascist as his counter parts of the time, but he makes some pretty ridiculous commentary. "The Blacks came from the gorillas, the Whites from the chimpanzees, and the Orientals from the orangutans, and it is for this reason that some races are superior ..." Darwin
"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision". Psalms 2:4...... God will have the last laugh! "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good". Psalm 14:1.....You followers of Dawkins will follow him, against God's will for you, to an eternal Hell! Where do you followers think we got our conscience? Oh I know it just happened from some energy. How foolish! THINK
Richard Dawkins never ceases to amaze me! I have always thought that the books he writes were actually too complicated for the intended audience. I hoped he would compile something for the less educated and more traditionally conditioned people who have strong convictions due to respect for their family and cultures, but are infact blinded by their dedication and hence deny the true beauty of life. A picture book! LOL! Oooh, your a clever man Mr Richards! Mwwwaah!
It is interesting that Richard Dawkins mentions the Sun as being the source of life on our planet. The sun is also damaging and increases damage to the genetic order we have causing cancer. The sun is constantly using up its's fuel and will eventually run cold. So how can something come out of nothing order it's self and produce life to only end up being cold and dead? There seems to be more myths today than in the past with so many more speculative ideas such as about the unobservable and unre
It is interesting that Richard Dawkins mentions the Sun as being the source of life on our planet. The sun is also damaging and increases damage to the genetic order we have causing cancer. The sun is constantly using up its's fuel and will eventually run cold. So how can something come out of nothing order it's self and produce life to only end up being cold and dead? There seems to be more myths today than in the past with so many speculative ideas such as Big Bang, Quasi Big Bang, Solid Stat
I would have prefered it to be 'The magic of reality- How we know what's real'. Instead of classifying the realness into sub categories of true and false. To me true and false are subjective, where prime focus and objective is the realness in existance. Anyway, maybe its best not to complicate the scenario.
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 You are confusing "dynamic" with "chaos" what grade are you in? RE"...it is just an event that we don't currently understand" No Shit?! That was my point. Again with the personal insults when you are out of facts. You lost the debate and now act like a typical liberal/atheist I win.. thanks for playing better luck next time
He sounds very posh but he actualy lives in a 1 bed studio flat in Stoke and works in my local KFC at weekends just to pay the rent. I see him riding his moped around town all the time...with no tax and insurance and bold tyres :-(
Professor Dawkins needs to be corrected when he refers to the people of South America since he mentions the aztecs. There were no aztec cultures in South America. The ones who worshipped the sun were The Incas who were the predominant culture in South America.
@carlindelco I do not wish to start an argument over your beliefs or what have you, but when you are arguing on here could you please write it in a manner that is fucking legible. Why you must argue about an opinion or belief is beyond me.
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 LOL By you inserting a "singularity" you did insert a imaginary friend,, a rose by any other name is lol So let me get this straight NOTHING created something,, and you call us delusional..? LOL Look around you pal??.. how can you NOT see the order, do you know what the universe is made of? IF you did you wouldn't be touting your ignorance on here.. You lib/atheist ALWAYS need to use personal insults when you can't understand something or lose. I feel sorry for you. I win
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 A SINGULARITY LMAO that science code for " we don't know what F it is!! " You have been watching to much SG1 LOL you loser..So what you saying is that a V.I. created by a programmer ( Todd) who populates it with avitars and imbues them with A.I. Doesn't exist because the A.I. says so? LMAO hahah man you have NO capacity to understand our current reality let alone God's Find something else.. say like video games or movie reviews ok?
I've already read it and can tell you that it's EXCELLENT!!! Required reading for our home schooling family!! FANTASTIC!! EASY TO COMPREHEND and really ENGAGING!! This book doesn't "bore" someone that lacks this type of knowledge and that's very important!!
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
Jesuitical; pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible
Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation Despotism 2nd Dark Age until Bible is destroyed
@kastnmagic "It's really too bad that you can't recognize that you're the delusional idiot"-kastnmagic
>Tell me, how familiar are you with Rome's Council of Trent and the world political machinations & social goals set forth therein?
How much do you know about Romes Counter Reformation and its global agenda laid down therein?
How much do you know about Rome's Jesuit military thats managed to place its minions in global govt 's and woven itself into every fabric of society these past 450 yrs?
@kastnmagic "More dogma.... WOW... You're lost.... Good luck with that..."-kastnmagic
dog·ma (dôgm, dg-)
n.
1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church.
his·to·ry (hst-r)
n.
1. A usually chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events: (a history of the Vikings.)
"It's really too bad that you can't recognize that you're the delusional idiot."-kastnmagic
>Let me ask you a question. Are you trying to convince me of this, or yourself?
I have a feeling this is the first time you have been supplied the crux of the whole matter and your inner sense was overwhelmed with so much truth within so few words, that pure subconscious denial kicked in to protect both your pampered false-reality world view & emotional comfort.
To stand alone is to be uncorrupted. "When the mind is free from all conditioning, then you will find that there comes the creativity of reality, of God, or what you will, and it is only such a mind, a mind which is constantly experiencing this creativity, that can bring about a different outlook, different values, a different world".
@princebuster93 LOL, what? There is no God so Richard Dawkins can freely have any wishes he likes. If his wish comes true it will be because others around him decide to stop believing in religious nonsense, not because a God granted him this wish.
A way-cool complementary trailer is the one that shows the I-Pad App, in action, for this book. A homeschool mom told me about at, as she got it for her 10-year-old daughter. Find the App trailer on YouTube by searching for:
Went to the Dawkins lecture last night and it was great. The audience seemed to have a deep genuine love for Dawkins and what he does to support and improve the view of the nonreligious in society. He is possibly the most well know scientist of our time going beyond the call of duty. He'll be a big name in the history of science as time goes by.
Yea, "Our Lady of Fatima" consisted of "three young children" who claimed that the "Virgin Mary" spoke to them and told them about the "Miracle of the Sun" which occurred a few days later and was whitnessed by "30,000 to 100,000 people". So you can't just explain away the vision of three children, but the subsequent vision of upwards of 100,000 people. If 100,000 people can hallucinate the sun zig-zagging across the sky and smashing into earth, then 100,000 peple can hallucinate particle physics
@Rybot9000 The interesting fact is, our *instruments* also hallucinate particle physics. Do you have video of any supposed miracles? Why not? Because cameras don't halucinate.
@dlbattle100 Physics is pretty clear about the fact that an "instrument" as you call it is not sufficient for collapsing the wave-function. The camera is just a means to exploring our shared hallucinatory experience.
@Rybot9000 Then a video should have no trouble capturing the next "Our Lady of" whereever incident. I'm looking forward to the movie. Until then I'm going to continue to assume that it's only some people that are hallucinating, not all of us.
@dlbattle100 I'm not saying the incident happened. I'm saying it is possible for scientists to hallucinate. Or to simply be wrong on multiple occassions and for very long times and to be dogmatic about it too. Nevertheless, pretty much everything is a hallucination of sorts, if you understand your neuroscience. The difference between "myths" is pretty trivial once you've gotten above them, but if you are stuck on one, too bad.
@dlbattle100 Take the recent example of Schectman who was called a "quasi-scientist" and is now a Nobel winner. His findings were rejected for a long time, and Schectman was ridiculed. There is all sorts of bias that goes on in the scientific community, and at the end of the day the essential truths are all the same. You just gotta be free enough (from dogma) to see it . Look up the Perennial Philosophy.
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given to the profane masses is another useful idiot for Jesuit machinations-C.O.
Jesuitical: pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system to suit their Evo-Hoax agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible
It would be nice to have some public understanding of particle physics, M-theory, multiverses, other dimensions, and all the other fantastical notions that physicists are asking us to believe in.
Is the universe infinite? If it is, how is that possible? If it's not it has a boundary. That is suggestive of 'beyond the boundary'. So what is what exactly? Everyone knows what a tectonic plate is and the structure of DNA, but what is a Planck length and what is half a planck length?
@PaulP567 The universe is not infinite because the big bang represents the beginning of both space and time. There is nothing before the big bang because there wasn't time before the big bang for anything to exist in. For example, say the south pole of the Earth represents the big bang and the lines of latitude that extend upwards from it represents the continuation of time. Asking what happened before the big bang is like asking what's below the south pole.
@PaulP567 One thing you should understand about the term Universe is that it is potentially a misnomer. 'Universe' should refer to, everything that exists but from research physicists and cosmologists have determined that we live in a finite pocket. So it's better to say "Our" Universe in my opinion. Within what the finite pocket exists, we are quite uncertain. A number of ideas have been suggested, such as multiverses & both higher and lower dimensions (the physical kind not the mystic kind).
Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist and science lover, but to be honest, a golden chariot racing across the sky sounds more magical to me than a giant ball of gas.
Is this a Magic Science or Science Magic? When a particular study is completed, it’ll absolutely give credit to the Creator but when a study is not and could not be completed it honors the capital letter "I" who always use the word magic. Magic word is very safe because you don’t have to prove it.
@Candelico we don't "lack the ability to comprehend god" although your religion says all humans lack that "ability". Most of us were theists at one point and most probably were true believers. I was certainly until I looked at things in the light of reason and realized there was as much "evidence" for Jesus as there is for Hercules or Osiris or Jupiter or Vishnu. Your personal religion is an accident of the location of your birth and culture. Get off the high horse.
@Carlindelco first, atheism isn't religion, it is a lack of religion. Your assertion is akin to saying that death is a form of life or that white is a lighter shade of black. We aren't setting up atheism as state sponsored religion, we believe religion should be left out of government totally. Taking out "in god we trust" is not atheism, changing it to "there is no god" is.
Another important contribution by Professor Dawkins to the public understanding of science. We owe this man a great debt in promoting reason and learning!
wow, funny how everyone talks to everyone else like trash if there's a hint of disagreement. Any of you claiming to know God should really know better than to show anything but love. Jesus style. You don't deserve anything different than anyone else and to taunt them for not knowing or understanding is just plain sick.
This guy is creepy, he is a spiritual and intellectual child molester.. YOU atheist are the firsts to have a conniption when anyone mentions God, and start praying the prayers of atheism, The establishment clause . but feel it's ok to establish atheism as a religion? Hypocrites! If you lack the ability to comprehend God, we're sorry to hear that, but stop with your delusions of "nothing" creating "something" which we know as a fact can NOT happen. talk about a fairytale LOL
Why are you fundamentalist fucks so offended by atheist beliefs? We don't go on creationist videos abusing you. But hell, when someone gives it to me, I'll take pleasure in giving it back. See, I can say that because I'm not a Christian.
@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
@carlindelco Clearly, you're the sort of person who would have benefitted from such a book when you were younger. There's still hope for you to ditch the supernatural fantasies...but somehow I sense you're too far gone. Best of luck living life in your dream world!
@carlindelco You are wrong about virtually everything you say here. The Establishment clause is not a prayer - it is a guiding principle of democracy in America. To suggest otherwise is to display gross ignorance of the U.S. government and its history. Atheism is not a religion - it is the rejection of a (unsupported) claim.
Your foolish misunderstnding of science (nothing created something) should embarass you enough that you realize you need to be educated before speaking about it again.
@carlindelco Riiiiight... How CAN something come from nothing? But of course Nothing created an all powerful, all knowing, all present, complex 'god' that one day out of his eternity of existence decided to create our universe.
Oh right... he required no creation, he just always existed, THAT makes sense, though it makes absolutely no sense that the unthinking physical properties and processes at the moment of the Big Bang just always existed. That's utterly absurd!
@EmeraldView LOL you guys assert that the entirety of this universe came into being from nothing and serously belive it. and out of the other side of your mouth mock us for believing that God always was. LOL how hypocritical can you be and still function enough to be able to get dressed in the morning? ( or in your case afternoon ) God lives in another dimension ( hey, kinda like you ) That concept is beyond you, i understand, perhaps you should try another area to debate in. this is too easy!
@carlindelco, Not only are you brainwashed, but put up weak arguments for your superstitions, accuse people of insulting you, yet you do the same, make strawman arguments, put up fake "LOL"s, and to top it off, you declare yourself the winner a lot to compensate for your insecurities. And yes, your writing is atrocious.
"I win", "I win", "I win"! Yep, you win at being the most pretentious, deluded, brainwashed, and malicious prick on this forum.
@LloydChristmas777 "strawman argument"?? what did u copy n paste that from somewhere, it doesn't apply to what I said. I made no mis-characterization of YOUR belief. Take a good look at yourself and your comments. all personal insults and allegations and NO facts and certainly NO rebuttal. U really need to find something else to debate try movies or music ok? Good Luck I won again. man this is really too easy.
@carlindelco, Still making strawmen and declaring yourself "winner". Wishing people to hell because they don't believe what you bleive. I'll tell you what: if there is a hell, I'm sure you've got the express pass there. "Winner". You're the biggest false prided and joker here right now. Pharisee.
I never at all thought it absurd that people worshiped the sun. Here's why: it's proven to exist (I mean, shit, you can at least SEE the fucking thing), it gives life and has the ability to take it away and brings happiness unlike this 'god' so many people are duped into believing.
@ciaobellakate LOL that sun won't be around where u will go when you die, you'll have to account to the other Son..LOL Just because you lack the ability to comprehend the concept of God, doesn't mean that you need to try to convince us who have that intellectual ability that we can't. You atheist are like dwarfs trying to tell a NBA player he can't dunk a basketball. We all know all to well what atheist bring, DEATH, as in French Revolution and the age of "reason" 600,000 killed, raped, etc
@ciaobellakate LOL that sun won't be around where u will go when you go, you'll have to account to the other Son.LOL Just because you lack the ability to comprehend the concept of God, doesn't mean that you need to try to convince us who have that intellectual ability that we can't. You atheist are like dwarfs trying to tell a NBA player he can't dunk a basketball. We all know all to well what atheist bring, DEATH, as in French Revolution and the age of "reason" 600,000 killed, raped, etc
The Bible never presents the 'sun' in any of the folkloric ways described by Greeks and Aztecs. It seems Mr Dawkins only real problem is that the God of the Bible claims sovergn power over it,...which is utterly logical and clearminded if He is its Creator.
This is wonderful! So much of human confusion comes from clinging to unproven things in the face of proven things. I can't wait to buy this book for the young people in our lives!
@laurenmichellekinsey what's the criteria for proven or unproven? science has been evolving it's theories for all time because we keep getting things wrong. If you were to ask "why" about anything to Science eventually you'd get no answer. If you were to ask "why" to God, you get to the same conclusion, "because I love you."
@majormelonhead To understand the criteria for proven and unproven, I suggest you study science. If you can't afford to go back to school there are a number of good books, and magazines available. If you seek, you will find.
@laurenmichellekinsey I'll definitely be buying these for my niece and nephew when they're old enough. Right now they're at the age of believing in Santa Claus (which they were told existed), however the scientific evidence is mounting for them, like the other day when they found the same gift wrapping paper their presents came in left over on the rolls in the back of my brother's closet. Another uncle might have said "Santa left that here to fix tears", I just said "Isn't that interesting".
@EmeraldView What a good uncle you are! Life is so much more interesting when it's explored using the scientific method instead of the "what feels true" method.
Does he discuss the Myth of Evolution? I would love him to explain why something that is even scientifically is referred to as a "theory" is taught in schools as "fact" as it is also considered "fact" on all nature shows. That's a myth I'd loved him to talk about.
@marcryan71 Oooh, I hope he also talks about the "myth" of gravity, cause scientifically speaking, gravity is just a "theory" as well. We should probably stop teaching about it in schools too.
@marcryan71 you'd have to have not done very well at school if you think they're teaching the theory of evolution as fact. it's a theory, and it always will be. all of science is theory, because there can never be any absolute fact. in anything. ever. chunks of evolution are being proven true by the fossil record every day, and as the EVIDENCE builds to support the theory, it becomes more acceptable. but never fact.
speaking of evidence, how's that coming with your imaginary friend?
@thenerdal now come on. i've read every major book dawkins has released. but still, it's a theory. a theory with well over 90% probability, but still a theory. you can't start thinking in facts if you want to keep your science pure.
did you read the new info on dinosaur extinction, btw? search Baptistina Asteroid. that theory is now officially dead. but that's ok, we'll keep looking until we find the answer.
@thenerdal don't be obtuse. if a detective sees a video of someone stabbing someone, then yes, it's observable fact that is what happened. but we're not talking about observable fact in the sense of looking back through time. there is currently very little observable evolution happening, but what has been seen since we began looking is compelling evidence of the truth of evolution. let's not jump to conclusions, evolution is 99.9999999% accurate. proving that to "believers" is another problem.
@Prof2You first off, "professor," it's empirically, not emperically. and how, without a time machine, do you suggest we observe evolution on a scale that would make it clear to you? we're obviously experiencing it, but such a small sample of it, like the recorded history of man being one frame from a year's worth of television programming, that piecing it all together is going to take some time. all we have to go on is some burnt fragments of film from the previous years to go on.
@bl8ant English was never a major of mine so please forgive the spelling. Even Dawkins has suggested that this "fact" has a large amount of wholes in it. Evolution presented as fact is simply bad science. You will find that if you keep theories, theories, you would find a larger amount of support. When science tries to pass on a theory as a fact, that is where people become upset. These "burnt fragments" as you put it are all suspect and subject to varying interpretations.
@Prof2You You spelled 'holes' incorrectly, by substituting 'wholes.' The problem with scientific concepts is that they require an education to be able to analyze/scrutinize/interpret, whereas faith is accessible to even the most mediocre laymen. Before going by what others say about a theory's plausibility, you owe it to yourself to objectively, honestly investigate the full claims of both sides, and then, only then, form your conclusion.
@themediocrenontheist First off I agree I am a terrible speller. Sorry. I tend to type very quickly and miss that. I have studied this for many, many years. The amount of error is the theory is beyond reason. It actually almost becomes its own religion to a certain degree. Btw, they require more than just an education. They take a painstaking look at facts, something that evolution is particularly short on. My conclusion has been made after looking at this for well over 20 years.
@Prof2You if you had read any of my previous posts in this thread you wouldn't have bothered to write what you wrote. science never tries to pass theory as fact, that's why we call it a fucking theory. it's possible we could be wrong, and that's fine, that's why we never stop doubting ourselves. it's the uneducated who are responsible for thinking of evolution as fact, and there's only so much you can do about willful ignorance.
@Prof2You We have rock-solid evidence that evolution has occurred and is, in fact, occurring as we speak. It's an on-going process. The 'theory' of evolution is simply our best scientific explanations for how evolution works, just as the 'theory' of gravity is our best scientific explanation for how gravity works.
The evidence of evolution also points to a common ancestor for ALL life on earth as we know it, branched out like a tree from its primitive origins.
@EmeraldView Rock solid? Really? Funny, I do not remember hearing or reading this and trust me, I probably have many more sources than you can imagine unless you are a scientist as well. Even Dawkins will tell you that we do not know how life formed. The difference between you and I is I start with facts, not theories.There is no solid evidence for evolution, just presumptions on theories. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@EmeraldView Rock solid? Really? Funny, I do not remember hearing or reading this and trust me, I probably have many more sources than you can imagine unless you are a scientist as well. Even Dawkins will tell you that we do not know how life formed. The difference between you and I is I start with facts, not theories.There is no solid evidence for evolution, just presumptions on theories. Sorry to burst your bubble.
@bl8ant If you would take some time to read the ENTIRE article and not, as my people do just the first few lines then you would read this: Scientists still believe that an asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ago was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but now they're less sure of where exactly it came from
@mauzzzie i did read the article in it's entirety. sorry if i was unclear, there's not a lot of room for clarification in a youtube comment. i didn't refute that an asteroid was the cause of dinosaur extinction, just pointing out that the one we thought was the cause turns out to be highly unlikely. the theory still stands, but one of our potential answers has been crossed off the list of possibilities.
I want this book
thinkboutit 5 days ago
I can't wait reading this sh*t! Gotta love Dawkins!
DeterminationForever 1 week ago
Looks like a beautiful book, gonna get it for myself, and one day pass it on :D
phantasmagorial 1 week ago
For kids? interesting, I'm still working my way through 'The Ancestors Tale', an awesome book by the way.
Blake4014 2 weeks ago
I gave this book to my son and read it with great pleasure too. A terrific achievement by Richard Dawkins. Now I was wondering if there exists a similar type of book with regard to Mathematics (in contrast to science in general). Has Marcus du Sautoy, Dawkins successor, written anything alike? Preferably in or translated into Dutch, but English is fine as well. Thanks for your advice.
jtheelen 2 weeks ago
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culturalhonesty 1 month ago
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culturalhonesty 1 month ago
I read this book. Recommended!
kurackurackurac 1 month ago
Dave McKean illustrating Dawkins' ideas? This must be really beautiful <3
spharktasm 1 month ago
I hope this childrens book discusses the theory of evolution, and not the leftist egalitarian version, the real version... where black people are less evolved
culturalhonesty 1 month ago
@culturalhonesty could you provide links of your claim?
Ikhwanalsafa 1 month ago
@Ikhwanalsafa sure, it is called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by a guy named Chucky Darwin
culturalhonesty 1 month ago
@culturalhonesty That didn't answer the question. I asked you to tell me where in Darwin's book it says blacks are less evolved than whites.
Ikhwanalsafa 1 month ago
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@Ikhwanalsafa sooo... are you new to the theory of human evolution? Let me tell you whats going on in the scientific world, they feed the public a watered down version of human evolution, because the REAL version promotes genocide. They would prefer everyone remain ignorant on the subject until biologists can come up with the technology to fix the less evolved.
culturalhonesty 1 month ago
@Ikhwanalsafa read the book again. Darwin made many comments whites verse black. he was far less rascist as his counter parts of the time, but he makes some pretty ridiculous commentary. "The Blacks came from the gorillas, the Whites from the chimpanzees, and the Orientals from the orangutans, and it is for this reason that some races are superior ..." Darwin
MischievousKittie 1 week ago
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@Ikhwanalsafa read the book again. Darwin made many comments whites verse black. he was far less rascist as his counter parts of the time, but he makes some pretty ridiculous commentary. "The Blacks came from the gorillas, the Whites from the chimpanzees, and the Orientals from the orangutans, and it is for this reason that some races are superior ..." Darwin
MischievousKittie 1 week ago
This is the textbook for my Phoenix University Masters in Physics class.
Its pretty decent. Can be a little bit simplistic at times, but its good.
elitemathlete 1 month ago
"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision". Psalms 2:4...... God will have the last laugh! "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good". Psalm 14:1.....You followers of Dawkins will follow him, against God's will for you, to an eternal Hell! Where do you followers think we got our conscience? Oh I know it just happened from some energy. How foolish! THINK
rhinestonenana 1 month ago
What does Jesus turning water into wine have to do with three children seeing Mary?
bulldogbell1980 1 month ago
Dawkins = Dovahkin = Fus Ro Dah
alexandersunivers91 1 month ago 6
@alexandersunivers91 oh my god thank the lord me gusta
StargateMunky 1 week ago
Richard Dawkins never ceases to amaze me! I have always thought that the books he writes were actually too complicated for the intended audience. I hoped he would compile something for the less educated and more traditionally conditioned people who have strong convictions due to respect for their family and cultures, but are infact blinded by their dedication and hence deny the true beauty of life. A picture book! LOL! Oooh, your a clever man Mr Richards! Mwwwaah!
1RandomMiss 2 months ago 3
@mythink101-
The sun is going to burn out, it gives us cancer, "came from nothing," - ergo "modern myths." Did someone get spare non sequiturs for Xmas?
myblownwish 2 months ago
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It is interesting that Richard Dawkins mentions the Sun as being the source of life on our planet. The sun is also damaging and increases damage to the genetic order we have causing cancer. The sun is constantly using up its's fuel and will eventually run cold. So how can something come out of nothing order it's self and produce life to only end up being cold and dead? There seems to be more myths today than in the past with so many more speculative ideas such as about the unobservable and unre
mythink101 2 months ago
It is interesting that Richard Dawkins mentions the Sun as being the source of life on our planet. The sun is also damaging and increases damage to the genetic order we have causing cancer. The sun is constantly using up its's fuel and will eventually run cold. So how can something come out of nothing order it's self and produce life to only end up being cold and dead? There seems to be more myths today than in the past with so many speculative ideas such as Big Bang, Quasi Big Bang, Solid Stat
mythink101 2 months ago
Observation and questions > Unchallenged faith.
I'm going to get this for the kids in my family.
LloydChristmas777 2 months ago
i cant wait to buy this aghhh
eatingtacos000 2 months ago
The Amazing Randi! :D
progrockcoffee 2 months ago
I would have prefered it to be 'The magic of reality- How we know what's real'. Instead of classifying the realness into sub categories of true and false. To me true and false are subjective, where prime focus and objective is the realness in existance. Anyway, maybe its best not to complicate the scenario.
midlain 2 months ago
i purchased this book today! (:
rudycorona1 3 months ago
:areyouawizard:
kcjumper9 3 months ago
:areuawizard:
kcjumper9 3 months ago
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 You are confusing "dynamic" with "chaos" what grade are you in? RE"...it is just an event that we don't currently understand" No Shit?! That was my point. Again with the personal insults when you are out of facts. You lost the debate and now act like a typical liberal/atheist I win.. thanks for playing better luck next time
carlindelco 3 months ago
My Little Dawkins: Reality is Magic!
... I Think i should copyright that...
CDRaccoon 3 months ago
@CDRaccoon I wonder what Dawkins' cutie mark would be...
Mandragara 3 months ago
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He sounds very posh but he actualy lives in a 1 bed studio flat in Stoke and works in my local KFC at weekends just to pay the rent. I see him riding his moped around town all the time...with no tax and insurance and bold tyres :-(
Englandsbestlover 3 months ago
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Englandsbestlover 3 months ago
Professor Dawkins needs to be corrected when he refers to the people of South America since he mentions the aztecs. There were no aztec cultures in South America. The ones who worshipped the sun were The Incas who were the predominant culture in South America.
marziocr 3 months ago
@marziocr He never said the aztecs lived in south america.
FeLiNe418 3 months ago
Richard Dawkins you really brought alot of non believers together
B4IRUTUARU16 3 months ago 4
@carlindelco I do not wish to start an argument over your beliefs or what have you, but when you are arguing on here could you please write it in a manner that is fucking legible. Why you must argue about an opinion or belief is beyond me.
IsaacDeanMusic 4 months ago
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 LOL By you inserting a "singularity" you did insert a imaginary friend,, a rose by any other name is lol So let me get this straight NOTHING created something,, and you call us delusional..? LOL Look around you pal??.. how can you NOT see the order, do you know what the universe is made of? IF you did you wouldn't be touting your ignorance on here.. You lib/atheist ALWAYS need to use personal insults when you can't understand something or lose. I feel sorry for you. I win
carlindelco 4 months ago
Why did they change the original cover art by Dave McKean? It was beautiful!
MsBickle76 4 months ago
I also want the ipad version of this book. Glad to see this finally done :)
danxiie 4 months ago
I would totally read this to my kids, grand kids and to my neighbor's little suckers.
Jurisabc 4 months ago 28
@MrCockmeatsandwich69 A SINGULARITY LMAO that science code for " we don't know what F it is!! " You have been watching to much SG1 LOL you loser..So what you saying is that a V.I. created by a programmer ( Todd) who populates it with avitars and imbues them with A.I. Doesn't exist because the A.I. says so? LMAO hahah man you have NO capacity to understand our current reality let alone God's Find something else.. say like video games or movie reviews ok?
carlindelco 4 months ago
why does itshow egyptiangods when talking aboutaztecs lol
Lan5in6 4 months ago
Sounds beautiful! Again reality beats imagination because our imagination is just a tiny part of this reality.
tubetib 4 months ago
Awesome I can't wait to see him at the Royal Albert Hall tonight talking about his book!
eukaryotebag 4 months ago
I've already read it and can tell you that it's EXCELLENT!!! Required reading for our home schooling family!! FANTASTIC!! EASY TO COMPREHEND and really ENGAGING!! This book doesn't "bore" someone that lacks this type of knowledge and that's very important!!
kastnmagic 4 months ago
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
Jesuitical; pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system 2 suit their Evo-Hoax Agenda to discredit the Bible
Papal Rome cant have their Counter Reformation Despotism 2nd Dark Age until Bible is destroyed
SpencerBenedict2nd 4 months ago
@SpencerBenedict2nd It's really too bad that you can't recognize that you're the delusional idiot. :)
kastnmagic 4 months ago
@kastnmagic "It's really too bad that you can't recognize that you're the delusional idiot"-kastnmagic
>Tell me, how familiar are you with Rome's Council of Trent and the world political machinations & social goals set forth therein?
How much do you know about Romes Counter Reformation and its global agenda laid down therein?
How much do you know about Rome's Jesuit military thats managed to place its minions in global govt 's and woven itself into every fabric of society these past 450 yrs?
SpencerBenedict2nd 4 months ago
@SpencerBenedict2nd LOL!! More dogma.... WOW... You're lost.... Good luck with that...
kastnmagic 4 months ago
@kastnmagic "More dogma.... WOW... You're lost.... Good luck with that..."-kastnmagic
dog·ma (dôgm, dg-)
n.
1. A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church.
his·to·ry (hst-r)
n.
1. A usually chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people or institution, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events: (a history of the Vikings.)
Recognize the difference
SpencerBenedict2nd 4 months ago
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@kastnmagic
"It's really too bad that you can't recognize that you're the delusional idiot."-kastnmagic
>Let me ask you a question. Are you trying to convince me of this, or yourself?
I have a feeling this is the first time you have been supplied the crux of the whole matter and your inner sense was overwhelmed with so much truth within so few words, that pure subconscious denial kicked in to protect both your pampered false-reality world view & emotional comfort.
I provide universal truth.
SpencerBenedict2nd 4 months ago
incredible man, we need more people that think like him
heavenorr 4 months ago
To stand alone is to be uncorrupted. "When the mind is free from all conditioning, then you will find that there comes the creativity of reality, of God, or what you will, and it is only such a mind, a mind which is constantly experiencing this creativity, that can bring about a different outlook, different values, a different world".
Quote: J Krishnamurti
princebuster93 4 months ago
I love Dawkins! I'm looking forward to reading your book!
ArtofBliss 4 months ago 2
Richard Dawkins wishes that we would all stop the religious nonsense, but which God does he expect to grant his wish?
what a tosser
princebuster93 4 months ago
@princebuster93 I've never facepalmed so hard in my life
PdishmonkeyJJ 4 months ago
@princebuster93 LOL, what? There is no God so Richard Dawkins can freely have any wishes he likes. If his wish comes true it will be because others around him decide to stop believing in religious nonsense, not because a God granted him this wish.
dustziggy 4 months ago
A way-cool complementary trailer is the one that shows the I-Pad App, in action, for this book. A homeschool mom told me about at, as she got it for her 10-year-old daughter. Find the App trailer on YouTube by searching for:
magic of reality app
thegreatstory 4 months ago
Clarification: the Aztecs were from Mexico not South America, but you're still the greatest Richard Dawkins!
Hackney2000 4 months ago 2
I prefer imagining some made up hero *Cough* me with powers *Cough*. I usually get awesome dreams that way.
killerboyfoolz 4 months ago
this is amazing
aqa122 4 months ago
great to see Dawkins back at what he does best...writing children's books ;)
SupaNinja777 4 months ago
Went to the Dawkins lecture last night and it was great. The audience seemed to have a deep genuine love for Dawkins and what he does to support and improve the view of the nonreligious in society. He is possibly the most well know scientist of our time going beyond the call of duty. He'll be a big name in the history of science as time goes by.
sitatratube 4 months ago 31
@sitatratube
I attended one ofhis lectures in 2007 in Göttingen, Germany.
The place was was the old Pauliner church which , after the desastrous 30-years war,had turned into a library of the then newly founded university.
In the other corner of that hall, directly opposite of Dawkins, are some ancient books exposed, among them one of the Gutenberg-bibles.
What a triumph for reason and science !
ulizinho 2 months ago
@sitatratube Lucky you. i would love to hear him live.
DaGavinX 1 month ago
I'm a Christian - but this interests me. Because I like to see how God's creations operate :P
remade89 4 months ago
@remade89 We can understand how those 'creations' operate without the judeo-christian god. Welcome to the Magic of Reality.
sub2me4areview 4 months ago
@sub2me4areview well said.
thepalebludot 4 months ago
This heathen is trying to undermine the basis of our freedom. He shouldn't be allowed to publish these lies!
plenrien 4 months ago
I want this book sooo bad, BUT Aztecs lived in North America, not South America. Just to be clear.
aradunakhor 4 months ago
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My copy arrived in the mail yesterday!
CranesNotSkyHooks 4 months ago
My copy arrived in the mail yesterday!
CranesNotSkyHooks 4 months ago
Yea, "Our Lady of Fatima" consisted of "three young children" who claimed that the "Virgin Mary" spoke to them and told them about the "Miracle of the Sun" which occurred a few days later and was whitnessed by "30,000 to 100,000 people". So you can't just explain away the vision of three children, but the subsequent vision of upwards of 100,000 people. If 100,000 people can hallucinate the sun zig-zagging across the sky and smashing into earth, then 100,000 peple can hallucinate particle physics
Rybot9000 4 months ago
@Rybot9000 The interesting fact is, our *instruments* also hallucinate particle physics. Do you have video of any supposed miracles? Why not? Because cameras don't halucinate.
dlbattle100 4 months ago
@dlbattle100 Physics is pretty clear about the fact that an "instrument" as you call it is not sufficient for collapsing the wave-function. The camera is just a means to exploring our shared hallucinatory experience.
Rybot9000 4 months ago
@Rybot9000 Then a video should have no trouble capturing the next "Our Lady of" whereever incident. I'm looking forward to the movie. Until then I'm going to continue to assume that it's only some people that are hallucinating, not all of us.
dlbattle100 4 months ago
@dlbattle100 I'm not saying the incident happened. I'm saying it is possible for scientists to hallucinate. Or to simply be wrong on multiple occassions and for very long times and to be dogmatic about it too. Nevertheless, pretty much everything is a hallucination of sorts, if you understand your neuroscience. The difference between "myths" is pretty trivial once you've gotten above them, but if you are stuck on one, too bad.
Rybot9000 4 months ago
@dlbattle100 Take the recent example of Schectman who was called a "quasi-scientist" and is now a Nobel winner. His findings were rejected for a long time, and Schectman was ridiculed. There is all sorts of bias that goes on in the scientific community, and at the end of the day the essential truths are all the same. You just gotta be free enough (from dogma) to see it . Look up the Perennial Philosophy.
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Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given to the profane masses is another useful idiot for Jesuit machinations-C.O.
Jesuitical: pertaining to the Jesuits or their principals; designing; cunning; deceitful; prevaricating
The Jesuit Order completely altered the education system to suit their Evo-Hoax agenda to discredit the Bible. They cant have a Satanic society of 'Do as Thou Wilt' if people still follow the Bible
SpencerBenedict2nd 5 months ago
It would be nice to have some public understanding of particle physics, M-theory, multiverses, other dimensions, and all the other fantastical notions that physicists are asking us to believe in.
Is the universe infinite? If it is, how is that possible? If it's not it has a boundary. That is suggestive of 'beyond the boundary'. So what is what exactly? Everyone knows what a tectonic plate is and the structure of DNA, but what is a Planck length and what is half a planck length?
PaulP567 5 months ago
@PaulP567 The universe is not infinite because the big bang represents the beginning of both space and time. There is nothing before the big bang because there wasn't time before the big bang for anything to exist in. For example, say the south pole of the Earth represents the big bang and the lines of latitude that extend upwards from it represents the continuation of time. Asking what happened before the big bang is like asking what's below the south pole.
TBat87 5 months ago
@PaulP567 One thing you should understand about the term Universe is that it is potentially a misnomer. 'Universe' should refer to, everything that exists but from research physicists and cosmologists have determined that we live in a finite pocket. So it's better to say "Our" Universe in my opinion. Within what the finite pocket exists, we are quite uncertain. A number of ideas have been suggested, such as multiverses & both higher and lower dimensions (the physical kind not the mystic kind).
Noviere 5 months ago
Tiktaalik, you ROCK! -- Be amazed: watch?v=1D1JXqKdkrs
marcryan71 5 months ago
Can't wait for the book tour. Hope I get to meet him. He's so famous to me ha. Geek much?.. ;)
missjessica221 5 months ago
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Richard Dawkins is an abomination
tigershumon 5 months ago
Dawkins has set reason forward 100 years.
fattristan149 5 months ago 28
Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist and science lover, but to be honest, a golden chariot racing across the sky sounds more magical to me than a giant ball of gas.
yoshitoki23 5 months ago
I got my copy today
branie99 5 months ago
spanish subtitles please.... ;)
lavirgenable 5 months ago
RICHARD DAWKINS AND DAVE MCKEAN!!!!!!!!!!!
preordered.
waitwhatwasthat 5 months ago
spanish subtitles please...
lavirgenable 5 months ago
İslamiyetin hakkaniyeti, Allahın varlığı birliği, ahiretin ısbat ve izahı ....Risale-i nur külliyatında
Bediüzzaman said nursi 1876-1960 TÜRKİYE
uzunsukru61 5 months ago
Is this a Magic Science or Science Magic? When a particular study is completed, it’ll absolutely give credit to the Creator but when a study is not and could not be completed it honors the capital letter "I" who always use the word magic. Magic word is very safe because you don’t have to prove it.
marvstan2004 5 months ago
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marvstan2004 5 months ago
@Candelico we don't "lack the ability to comprehend god" although your religion says all humans lack that "ability". Most of us were theists at one point and most probably were true believers. I was certainly until I looked at things in the light of reason and realized there was as much "evidence" for Jesus as there is for Hercules or Osiris or Jupiter or Vishnu. Your personal religion is an accident of the location of your birth and culture. Get off the high horse.
Christopher71488 5 months ago 2
@Carlindelco first, atheism isn't religion, it is a lack of religion. Your assertion is akin to saying that death is a form of life or that white is a lighter shade of black. We aren't setting up atheism as state sponsored religion, we believe religion should be left out of government totally. Taking out "in god we trust" is not atheism, changing it to "there is no god" is.
Christopher71488 5 months ago 2
Another important contribution by Professor Dawkins to the public understanding of science. We owe this man a great debt in promoting reason and learning!
Tapiola2007 5 months ago 67
@Tapiola2007 Word! I don't always agree with Dawkins (or anyone else), but all things considered, he truly is a force of good.
NFM1337 5 months ago
Is he still with Mr. Garrison?
thomaserossi 5 months ago
@thomaserossi Scissors me timbers :)
MURRAY9714 5 months ago
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@thomaserossi Scissors me timbers :)
MURRAY9714 5 months ago
wow, funny how everyone talks to everyone else like trash if there's a hint of disagreement. Any of you claiming to know God should really know better than to show anything but love. Jesus style. You don't deserve anything different than anyone else and to taunt them for not knowing or understanding is just plain sick.
majormelonhead 5 months ago
This guy is creepy, he is a spiritual and intellectual child molester.. YOU atheist are the firsts to have a conniption when anyone mentions God, and start praying the prayers of atheism, The establishment clause . but feel it's ok to establish atheism as a religion? Hypocrites! If you lack the ability to comprehend God, we're sorry to hear that, but stop with your delusions of "nothing" creating "something" which we know as a fact can NOT happen. talk about a fairytale LOL
carlindelco 5 months ago
@carlindelco
Why are you fundamentalist fucks so offended by atheist beliefs? We don't go on creationist videos abusing you. But hell, when someone gives it to me, I'll take pleasure in giving it back. See, I can say that because I'm not a Christian.
ciaobellakate 5 months ago
@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
OutsideTheVoid 5 months ago
@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
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@carlindelco I'm Catholic. it is people like you that give Catholics and other Christians a bad name. Grow up, and do something more productive than purposely poke and piss people off on the internet. "LOL"
OutsideTheVoid 5 months ago
@carlindelco Clearly, you're the sort of person who would have benefitted from such a book when you were younger. There's still hope for you to ditch the supernatural fantasies...but somehow I sense you're too far gone. Best of luck living life in your dream world!
Tapiola2007 5 months ago
@carlindelco You are wrong about virtually everything you say here. The Establishment clause is not a prayer - it is a guiding principle of democracy in America. To suggest otherwise is to display gross ignorance of the U.S. government and its history. Atheism is not a religion - it is the rejection of a (unsupported) claim.
Your foolish misunderstnding of science (nothing created something) should embarass you enough that you realize you need to be educated before speaking about it again.
MisterDataJack 5 months ago
@carlindelco Riiiiight... How CAN something come from nothing? But of course Nothing created an all powerful, all knowing, all present, complex 'god' that one day out of his eternity of existence decided to create our universe.
Oh right... he required no creation, he just always existed, THAT makes sense, though it makes absolutely no sense that the unthinking physical properties and processes at the moment of the Big Bang just always existed. That's utterly absurd!
EmeraldView 5 months ago
@EmeraldView LOL you guys assert that the entirety of this universe came into being from nothing and serously belive it. and out of the other side of your mouth mock us for believing that God always was. LOL how hypocritical can you be and still function enough to be able to get dressed in the morning? ( or in your case afternoon ) God lives in another dimension ( hey, kinda like you ) That concept is beyond you, i understand, perhaps you should try another area to debate in. this is too easy!
carlindelco 4 months ago
@carlindelco, Not only are you brainwashed, but put up weak arguments for your superstitions, accuse people of insulting you, yet you do the same, make strawman arguments, put up fake "LOL"s, and to top it off, you declare yourself the winner a lot to compensate for your insecurities. And yes, your writing is atrocious.
"I win", "I win", "I win"! Yep, you win at being the most pretentious, deluded, brainwashed, and malicious prick on this forum.
LloydChristmas777 2 months ago
@LloydChristmas777 "strawman argument"?? what did u copy n paste that from somewhere, it doesn't apply to what I said. I made no mis-characterization of YOUR belief. Take a good look at yourself and your comments. all personal insults and allegations and NO facts and certainly NO rebuttal. U really need to find something else to debate try movies or music ok? Good Luck I won again. man this is really too easy.
carlindelco 2 weeks ago
@carlindelco, Still making strawmen and declaring yourself "winner". Wishing people to hell because they don't believe what you bleive. I'll tell you what: if there is a hell, I'm sure you've got the express pass there. "Winner". You're the biggest false prided and joker here right now. Pharisee.
LloydChristmas777 2 weeks ago
is the book in spanish version?? pleasee say yes!!
CosetteDubois 5 months ago
I never at all thought it absurd that people worshiped the sun. Here's why: it's proven to exist (I mean, shit, you can at least SEE the fucking thing), it gives life and has the ability to take it away and brings happiness unlike this 'god' so many people are duped into believing.
ciaobellakate 5 months ago 3
@ciaobellakate LOL that sun won't be around where u will go when you die, you'll have to account to the other Son..LOL Just because you lack the ability to comprehend the concept of God, doesn't mean that you need to try to convince us who have that intellectual ability that we can't. You atheist are like dwarfs trying to tell a NBA player he can't dunk a basketball. We all know all to well what atheist bring, DEATH, as in French Revolution and the age of "reason" 600,000 killed, raped, etc
carlindelco 5 months ago
@ciaobellakate LOL that sun won't be around where u will go when you go, you'll have to account to the other Son.LOL Just because you lack the ability to comprehend the concept of God, doesn't mean that you need to try to convince us who have that intellectual ability that we can't. You atheist are like dwarfs trying to tell a NBA player he can't dunk a basketball. We all know all to well what atheist bring, DEATH, as in French Revolution and the age of "reason" 600,000 killed, raped, etc
carlindelco 5 months ago
@carlindelco
How Christ-like of you to wish so much ill of me.
Go fuck yourself.
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@carlindelco
How Christ-like of you to wish so much ill of me.
Go fuck yourself.
ciaobellakate 5 months ago
Awesome, awesome, awesome - million dollar best seller list NOW!
JourneyHome 5 months ago
The Bible never presents the 'sun' in any of the folkloric ways described by Greeks and Aztecs. It seems Mr Dawkins only real problem is that the God of the Bible claims sovergn power over it,...which is utterly logical and clearminded if He is its Creator.
TobWAR1995 5 months ago
FOR THE LOVE OF JAGA.
A children's book written by Richard Dawkins AND drawn by DAVE MCKEAN?!
DREAM. COME. TRUE.
TezQuetz 5 months ago 11
This is wonderful! So much of human confusion comes from clinging to unproven things in the face of proven things. I can't wait to buy this book for the young people in our lives!
laurenmichellekinsey 5 months ago
@laurenmichellekinsey what's the criteria for proven or unproven? science has been evolving it's theories for all time because we keep getting things wrong. If you were to ask "why" about anything to Science eventually you'd get no answer. If you were to ask "why" to God, you get to the same conclusion, "because I love you."
majormelonhead 5 months ago
@majormelonhead To understand the criteria for proven and unproven, I suggest you study science. If you can't afford to go back to school there are a number of good books, and magazines available. If you seek, you will find.
laurenmichellekinsey 5 months ago
@laurenmichellekinsey I'll definitely be buying these for my niece and nephew when they're old enough. Right now they're at the age of believing in Santa Claus (which they were told existed), however the scientific evidence is mounting for them, like the other day when they found the same gift wrapping paper their presents came in left over on the rolls in the back of my brother's closet. Another uncle might have said "Santa left that here to fix tears", I just said "Isn't that interesting".
EmeraldView 5 months ago
@EmeraldView What a good uncle you are! Life is so much more interesting when it's explored using the scientific method instead of the "what feels true" method.
laurenmichellekinsey 5 months ago
I just pre-ordered a copy on Barnes and Noble. So excited.
warnerwb 5 months ago
Not sure why you felt the need to include your atheistic indoctrination in a science book for kids, Dick.
JMcH 5 months ago
Not sure what any of it means, and the book probably only confuses it more. Myth or fact of a fact of myth- you decide?
Empepe3 5 months ago
Richard Dawkins is a myth. He's actually a great burning ball of gas.
SapphireBrook 5 months ago
@SapphireBrook - lol!
JMcH 5 months ago
I can't decide if this is ridiculous or genius.
APetulantWhiteGuy 5 months ago
this is beautiful! Brilliant as always =D
zorac91 5 months ago
Damn, I'm a senior that Rutgers and I think I'll pick up this book! Ha!
Leon612 5 months ago
I'm a christian and when I have children I will be reading this to my kids to give them a straight answer!
sillykatz 5 months ago
Does he discuss the Myth of Evolution? I would love him to explain why something that is even scientifically is referred to as a "theory" is taught in schools as "fact" as it is also considered "fact" on all nature shows. That's a myth I'd loved him to talk about.
marcryan71 5 months ago
@marcryan71 Oooh, I hope he also talks about the "myth" of gravity, cause scientifically speaking, gravity is just a "theory" as well. We should probably stop teaching about it in schools too.
aVaKus 5 months ago
@marcryan71 @aVaKus And do you know which theory we know less about? marcryan71 you ill informed spastic.
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CaptainRon2341 5 months ago
@marcryan71 Wow look at your page! What a nut job! Everyone is laughing at you pal.
CaptainRon2341 5 months ago
@marcryan71 you'd have to have not done very well at school if you think they're teaching the theory of evolution as fact. it's a theory, and it always will be. all of science is theory, because there can never be any absolute fact. in anything. ever. chunks of evolution are being proven true by the fossil record every day, and as the EVIDENCE builds to support the theory, it becomes more acceptable. but never fact.
speaking of evidence, how's that coming with your imaginary friend?
bl8ant 5 months ago
@bl8ant It's a fact. If you were to read the book on Evolution by Dawkins, you'd know it is a fact.
thenerdal 5 months ago
@thenerdal now come on. i've read every major book dawkins has released. but still, it's a theory. a theory with well over 90% probability, but still a theory. you can't start thinking in facts if you want to keep your science pure.
did you read the new info on dinosaur extinction, btw? search Baptistina Asteroid. that theory is now officially dead. but that's ok, we'll keep looking until we find the answer.
bl8ant 5 months ago
@bl8ant So what you're saying is that a detective solving a mystery is a theory and not a fact?
thenerdal 5 months ago
@thenerdal don't be obtuse. if a detective sees a video of someone stabbing someone, then yes, it's observable fact that is what happened. but we're not talking about observable fact in the sense of looking back through time. there is currently very little observable evolution happening, but what has been seen since we began looking is compelling evidence of the truth of evolution. let's not jump to conclusions, evolution is 99.9999999% accurate. proving that to "believers" is another problem.
bl8ant 5 months ago
@bl8ant 99.99999% Give me a break. one simple question. Prove it emperically.
Prof2You 5 months ago
@Prof2You first off, "professor," it's empirically, not emperically. and how, without a time machine, do you suggest we observe evolution on a scale that would make it clear to you? we're obviously experiencing it, but such a small sample of it, like the recorded history of man being one frame from a year's worth of television programming, that piecing it all together is going to take some time. all we have to go on is some burnt fragments of film from the previous years to go on.
bl8ant 5 months ago
@bl8ant English was never a major of mine so please forgive the spelling. Even Dawkins has suggested that this "fact" has a large amount of wholes in it. Evolution presented as fact is simply bad science. You will find that if you keep theories, theories, you would find a larger amount of support. When science tries to pass on a theory as a fact, that is where people become upset. These "burnt fragments" as you put it are all suspect and subject to varying interpretations.
Prof2You 5 months ago
@Prof2You You spelled 'holes' incorrectly, by substituting 'wholes.' The problem with scientific concepts is that they require an education to be able to analyze/scrutinize/interpret, whereas faith is accessible to even the most mediocre laymen. Before going by what others say about a theory's plausibility, you owe it to yourself to objectively, honestly investigate the full claims of both sides, and then, only then, form your conclusion.
themediocrenontheist 5 months ago
@themediocrenontheist First off I agree I am a terrible speller. Sorry. I tend to type very quickly and miss that. I have studied this for many, many years. The amount of error is the theory is beyond reason. It actually almost becomes its own religion to a certain degree. Btw, they require more than just an education. They take a painstaking look at facts, something that evolution is particularly short on. My conclusion has been made after looking at this for well over 20 years.
Prof2You 4 months ago
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@Prof2You if you had read any of my previous posts in this thread you wouldn't have bothered to write what you wrote. science never tries to pass theory as fact, that's why we call it a fucking theory. it's possible we could be wrong, and that's fine, that's why we never stop doubting ourselves. it's the uneducated who are responsible for thinking of evolution as fact, and there's only so much you can do about willful ignorance.
bl8ant 5 months ago
@Prof2You We have rock-solid evidence that evolution has occurred and is, in fact, occurring as we speak. It's an on-going process. The 'theory' of evolution is simply our best scientific explanations for how evolution works, just as the 'theory' of gravity is our best scientific explanation for how gravity works.
The evidence of evolution also points to a common ancestor for ALL life on earth as we know it, branched out like a tree from its primitive origins.
EmeraldView 5 months ago
@EmeraldView Rock solid? Really? Funny, I do not remember hearing or reading this and trust me, I probably have many more sources than you can imagine unless you are a scientist as well. Even Dawkins will tell you that we do not know how life formed. The difference between you and I is I start with facts, not theories.There is no solid evidence for evolution, just presumptions on theories. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Prof2You 5 months ago
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@EmeraldView Rock solid? Really? Funny, I do not remember hearing or reading this and trust me, I probably have many more sources than you can imagine unless you are a scientist as well. Even Dawkins will tell you that we do not know how life formed. The difference between you and I is I start with facts, not theories.There is no solid evidence for evolution, just presumptions on theories. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Prof2You 5 months ago
@bl8ant If you would take some time to read the ENTIRE article and not, as my people do just the first few lines then you would read this: Scientists still believe that an asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ago was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs, but now they're less sure of where exactly it came from
mauzzzie 5 months ago
@mauzzzie i did read the article in it's entirety. sorry if i was unclear, there's not a lot of room for clarification in a youtube comment. i didn't refute that an asteroid was the cause of dinosaur extinction, just pointing out that the one we thought was the cause turns out to be highly unlikely. the theory still stands, but one of our potential answers has been crossed off the list of possibilities.
bl8ant 5 months ago
@marcryan71
groan -
somebody tell him ...