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Paul Flocken Posts: 290 Joined: Dec. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 28 2007,17:58    Richard Dawkins is being interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air right now for anyone who can tune into your local public radio and wants to listen.  If not my station is here. http://www.whqr.org They have an online streaming broadcast. Paul edit:The NPR link is: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13 second edit:I forgot to include that Francis Collins is being interviewed tonight (Mar30) as a followup to the Dawkins interview. -------------- "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.  Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."-John F. Kennedy

Stephen Elliott Posts: 1776 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 29 2007,02:35    Quote (Paul Flocken @ Mar. 28 2007,16:58) Richard Dawkins is being interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air right now for anyone who can tune into your local public radio and wants to listen.  If not my station is here. http://www.whqr.org They have an online streaming broadcast. Paul edit:The NPR link is: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13 Just listened to it, thought he was very good. Cheers for the link.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4966 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 27 2009,23:23    Richard Dawkins is coming to Michigan State University Tuesday, March 2nd. His talk has completely sold out the Wharton Center theater, and they even took the step of selling seats in the balcony, something that usually doesn't happen for lectures. I'm in communication with the speaking engagement organizers, and I've requested having a brief opportunity to talk with Prof. Dawkins, results to be posted to PT. I don't know whether I'll actually get a spot in his busy schedule, but in case I do get a chance to ask a few questions, I thought that I would open the floor here for suggesting questions to pose to Prof. Dawkins. No promises... I don't even know if I will get closer than across the theater at this point. But there isn't much time left before the lecture, so go ahead and post your softballs and posers now. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Dr.GH Posts: 2324 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 27 2009,23:53    "You have promoted the notion that social concepts are hereditable as "memes" following similar paths as genes. Formal linguistic studies would insist that languages "... are descended from some one prototype," to paraphrase Darwin. "But analogy may be a deceitful guide," as he further observed. Do you imagine that the development of human cultures is reducible to chemistry? -------------- "Science is the horse that pulls the cart of philosophy." L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"

Kristine Posts: 3061 Joined: Sep. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 28 2009,15:49    I think Richard is pretty tired of talking about memes. He only used it as an analogy of the replicator, which is what he was really writing about. -------------- Which came first: the shimmy, or the hip? AtBC Poet Laureate "I happen to think that this prerequisite criterion of empirical evidence is itself not empirical." - Clive "Damn you. This means a trip to the library. Again." -- fnxtr

khan Posts: 1554 Joined: May 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 28 2009,15:53    What do you think about the blatant lying and slander from those who proclaim moral superiority? -------------- "It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad Frequency is just the plural of wavelength... -JoeG

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4966 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 28 2009,16:28    I'm appalled about the blatant lying and slander from religious antievolutionists. I expect Dawkins is, too. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Chayanov Posts: 289 Joined: Dec. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Feb. 28 2009,18:00    This is probably off-topic, and isn't really a question. I just had to vent about how irritating it is when theists complain that Dawkins takes a superficial approach to critiquing religion that doesn't take into account really complex religious traditions like Buddhism or neo-paganism, that atheists who dare to criticize religion are "fundamentalist" and "militant", and when they insinuate that Dawkins is the atheist pope whom all atheists are required to worship. Okay, I feel a little better now. -------------- Help! Marxist literary critics are following me!

pzoot Posts: 8 Joined: Jan. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 01 2009,01:44    Ask him how when he thinks the proportion of US citizens who deny evolution will drop below 50%.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4966 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 01 2009,02:00    Around 2004, according to the Gallup poll. ETA: Actually, taking your question literally requires adding in the "don't know/no response" category to the numbers, which means that Gallup has never seen more than 50% reject evolution. Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on Mar. 01 2009,02:02 -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4966 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 09 2009,16:42    I didn't get my own time to talk to Dawkins, but I was able to hear the lecture and the Q&A the following day, plus get some photos. Notes from the lecture -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

J-Dog Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 09 2009,20:45    Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Mar. 09 2009,16:42) I didn't get my own time to talk to Dawkins, but I was able to hear the lecture and the Q&A the following day, plus get some photos. Notes from the lecture I'll take our guy over their guy every time... ps:  Thanks Afarensis! -------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10 Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08 UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

ERV Posts: 329 Joined: Sep. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 14 2009,20:57    Didnt know where to put this: Basically, Dawkins is the nicest guy ever.  He didnt charge OU a penny for speaking here, his reasons are his own.  But he didnt want to toot his own horn (IM SO NICE! LOOK AT THIS CHARITY IM DOING! LOOOOOOK! LOOK AT ME!!!), so we kept it a secret. But then we found out that several OK legislators, OKC area religious radicals ('pastors'), and none other than Ray Martin, this little piggie lookin kid that brought OUs IDEA club back to life, were filing LAWSUITS to find out who donated the money to bring Dawkins to campus, where Dawkins put the money, etc.  Wonder who gave em that idea?  *flips off Caseyfag again* Dawkins is such a gentleman.  And Im stuck here with fucking hogs in sport coats. The lulz.

ERV Posts: 329 Joined: Sep. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 14 2009,21:01    J-Dog-- I made this a couple years ago for Denialism Blogs 'LOLCreationists':

khan Posts: 1554 Joined: May 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 14 2009,21:05    Cool. -------------- "It's as if all those words, in their hurry to escape from the loony, have fallen over each other, forming scrambled heaps of meaninglessness." -damitall That's so fucking stupid it merits a wing in the museum of stupid. -midwifetoad Frequency is just the plural of wavelength... -JoeG

J-Dog Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 14 2009,21:40    Quote (ERV @ Mar. 14 2009,21:01) J-Dog-- I made this a couple years ago for Denialism Blogs 'LOLCreationists': Brilliant! And eminently worth saving for future use too! Thanks for the post, and thanks for keeping us updated here and at ERV. BTW - Are you gonna be able to keep us posted about Dembski's return to OSU? -------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10 Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08 UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11

rhmc Posts: 340 Joined: Dec. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Mar. 15 2009,18:20    Quote (ERV @ Mar. 14 2009,21:57)  And Im stuck here with fucking hogs in sport coats. and a jug of fortyrod?

Lou FCD Posts: 5452 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 04 2010,06:28    I got a chance to hear him speak at Duke yesterday, and got this shot from my seat in the 8th row. -------------- “Why do creationists have such a hard time with commas? Linky“. ~ Steve Story, Legend

DPG Posts: 1 Joined: April 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 04 2010,07:16    That's Dick to the Dawk at the Duke.... right? DPG

Doc Bill Posts: 1039 Joined: April 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2010,00:26    Dawkins spoke in Houston tonight and I was there only >this< far from the Dawk. He's still quite lucid I'm glad to say! He got a big laugh after describing a hypothetical radiation of animals from Noah's Ark, then apologized for using "a sledgehammer to crack such a small, fragile nut." I need to make a ringtone of that.

Timothy McDougald Posts: 1036 Joined: Dec. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2010,07:31    Quote (J-Dog @ Mar. 09 2009,20:45) Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Mar. 09 2009,16:42) I didn't get my own time to talk to Dawkins, but I was able to hear the lecture and the Q&A the following day, plus get some photos. Notes from the lecture I'll take our guy over their guy every time... ps:  Thanks Afarensis! No problem -------------- Church burning ebola boy FTK: I Didn't answer your questions because it beats the hell out of me. PaV: I suppose for me to be pried away from what I do to focus long and hard on that particular problem would take, quite honestly, hundreds of thousands of dollars to begin to pique my interest.

Henry J Posts: 5760 Joined: Mar. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2010,09:31    About to be eaten by an octopus? The sucker!

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