Another great quote by Francis Crick from his book The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul: “The age of the earth is now established beyond any reasonable doubt as very great, yet in the United States millions of Fundamentalists still stoutly defend the naive view that it is relatively short, an opinion deduced [...]
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The age of the earth is now established beyond any reasonable doubt as very great, yet in the United States millions of Fundamentalists still stoutly defend the naive view that it is relatively short…
Posted in Great Quotations, Recommended Reading on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
People are happy to contemplate the limitless powers of God….
Posted in Great Quotations, Recommended Reading on May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Francis Crick the great molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who was one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule wrote in his book Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature : “To me it is remarkable that this astonishing discovery, the vastness and emptiness of space, has not attracted the imaginative attention of [...]
Google Books: The Selfish Gene By Richard Dawkins
Posted in Recommended Reading, Richard Dawkins on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, just discovered Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene online in the GoogleBooks library! >
Richard Dawkins speaks at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg and engages students and faculty from nearby Liberty University in a Q&A session too
Posted in Recommended Reading, Richard Dawkins on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know from a couple of discussions I’ve recently read online and had with friends and acquaintances that there are a few people who have already read and enjoyed Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion so I thought I bring up that there is an excellent set of videos on YouTube that came out of [...]
Some great quotes from William Greider to inspire our thinking
Posted in Great Quotations, On Liberalism, Recommended Reading on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some great quotes from William Greider author of The Soul of Capitalism : Opening Paths to a Moral Economy and Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy to inspire our thinking: “If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or [...]