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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics. He also presents the theory t...
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics. He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on traits to daughter universes birthed from black holes.
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Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion created a storm of controversy over the question of God's existence. Now, in The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins presents a stunning counterattack against advocates of "Intelligent Design" that explains the evidence for evolution while keeping an eye trained on the absurdities of the creationist argument.
More than an argument of his own, it's a thrilling tour into our distant past and into the interstices of life on earth. Taking us through the case for evolution step-by-step, Dawkins looks at DNA, selective breeding, anatomical similarities, molecular family trees, geography, time, fossils, vestiges and imperfections, human evolution, and the formula for a strong scientific theory.
Dawkins' trademark wit and ferocity is joined by an infectious passion for the beauty and strangeness of the natural world, proving along the way that the mechanisms of the natural world are more miraculous -- a "greater show" -- than any creation story generated by any religion on earth. - Berkeley Arts and Letters
Richard Dawkins is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and, until recently, held the Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His first book, The Selfish Gene, was an instant international bestseller, and has become an established classic work of modern evolutionary biology.
He is also the author of The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil's Chaplain, The Ancestor's Tale The God Delusion, and most recently, The Greatsest Show on Earth.
Professor Dawkins's awards have included the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award (1990), the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science (1990), The International Cosmos Prize (1997) and the Kistler Prize (2001).
He has Honorary Doctorates in both literature and science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Think for a moment Teach, if people just did good for the sake of being altruistic? Some people may hide behind the banner of religion to do good deeds, but we are a social species. Doing good things for others gets us in good social standing. But, you don't need a religion to do good things. However it seems, you do need one as an excuse to do terrible things.
Religion is concidered by the lay person to be true, the wise to be false and by those in power: Useful. That seems to be religions only redeeming factor, and even then it is a piss poor one at best. It pushes the "Us vs Them" mentality. It makes it so that in order to do something, people are pushed by either fear or false promise of reward. The list of things that have been done in the name of a god, though mostly political are still "done in the name of a god".
What isn't? Religion has been through out the ages a way to silence the questions of "What's it all about?" in human history. When humanity was young little things confused and baffled us, how does fire work? We concluded that it was divine or had a god behind it. The same with water, or nature or anything else. These little stories lead to beliefs about things. Beliefs that lead to human sacrifice, mutilation, murder and many other horrible things.
So we stick with the best explanation that unbiased peer reviewed, tested, retested evidence has to offer in the realm of Science. Evolution by Natural Selection. And it is the one that not only Works, but is supported by the Evidence. Evidence like Fossils. Embryological Evidence, comparative morphology, and most potent of all: DNA. *ID isn't really a theory. It barely stands as a hypothesis. And it has been ruled as Creationism.
How is this? Creation says that a god created everything spontaneously. ID says an intelligent force created everything spontaneously. See the Difference? One is more vague than the other. But they are in fact the same thing. When we keep these sorts of things out of a SCIENCE classroom, we are not just protecting everyone elses' beliefs, we are also protecting yours. How would you like to learn about how the Hindus view creation?
Problem with wanting an "alternative thought in addition to evolution" is that who's alternative thought are you wanting to teach? Hindu? Aztec? Buddhist? Islamic? Norse? Egyptian? Keeping religion, and I am guessing that ID explanation* is what you are talking about here, is in fact religion. It not only has been proven in a Court Of Law, by a republican judge, appointed by Bush Jr. But even the mere postulate it makes is Creation, which has been ruled Religion.
This is laughable. "Doesn't hate women?", "Not many gays are religious?" And then you have to go and insult the founding fathers, the founding fathers if anything were Deists. keep your church out of the government types. And with good reason, Nobody wants to live in a Theocracy. That's what American settlers were trying to get away from in the first place. And you do realize we have found ways of turning Normal cells into Stem Cells? Normal Adult Skin Cells.
If a swim suit model challenged Hawking to a debate about quantum physics without knowing anything about it, what Point would here be? This is the same reason Dawkins won't debate Creationists, or christian apologists. Cause when it comes down to it, you guys have the same arguments that have been refuted again and again and again. And you don't have to know too much about religion to talk about it, after all people will tell you what they believe. Rarely do they tell you Why they believe it.
I need someone to help me,atheists i wa just over Listening to Richard Dawkins he say men evolved from apes,do you recall seeing any apes changing any ,since recorded history no apes have made the slightest change,I gave one a slide rule at the zoo he was banging it on the bars
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Some people may hide behind the banner of religion to do good deeds, but we are a social species. Doing good things for others gets us in good social standing.
But, you don't need a religion to do good things.
However it seems, you do need one as an excuse to do terrible things.
(God With Us) written on their belt buckles for Nothing don't cha know.
That seems to be religions only redeeming factor, and even then it is a piss poor one at best.
It pushes the "Us vs Them" mentality. It makes it so that in order to do something, people are pushed by either fear or false promise of reward.
The list of things that have been done in the name of a god, though mostly political are still "done in the name of a god".
Religion has been through out the ages a way to silence the questions of "What's it all about?" in human history.
When humanity was young little things confused and baffled us, how does fire work? We concluded that it was divine or had a god behind it. The same with water, or nature or anything else.
These little stories lead to beliefs about things.
Beliefs that lead to human sacrifice, mutilation, murder and many other horrible things.
Evolution by Natural Selection.
And it is the one that not only Works, but is supported by the Evidence. Evidence like Fossils. Embryological Evidence, comparative morphology, and most potent of all: DNA.
*ID isn't really a theory. It barely stands as a hypothesis. And it has been ruled as Creationism.
One is more vague than the other. But they are in fact the same thing.
When we keep these sorts of things out of a SCIENCE classroom, we are not just protecting everyone elses' beliefs, we are also protecting yours. How would you like to learn about how the Hindus view creation?
Keeping religion, and I am guessing that ID explanation* is what you are talking about here, is in fact religion. It not only has been proven in a Court Of Law, by a republican judge, appointed by Bush Jr. But even the mere postulate it makes is Creation, which has been ruled Religion.
And you do realize we have found ways of turning Normal cells into Stem Cells? Normal Adult Skin Cells.
This is the same reason Dawkins won't debate Creationists, or christian apologists. Cause when it comes down to it, you guys have the same arguments that have been refuted again and again and again.
And you don't have to know too much about religion to talk about it, after all people will tell you what they believe. Rarely do they tell you Why they believe it.