From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog comes this interesting assortment of links on all things atheism and faith. One of the highlights is a Julian Baggini review (in The Guardian) of Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer. Another interesting link is from Steven Douglas Smith (University of San Diego School of Law), Is God … Read more
On Sunday night following this week’s episode of “True Blood”, HBO launched “The Newsroom” with a one-hour premiere episode. You can watch this pilot for free without subscription on the HBO website. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the man behind this endeavor, Aaron Sorkin, he is the one that gave us the … Read more
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’re probably familiar with the various documentaries, debates and lectures Richard Dawkins has delivered over the years. Sure, his fame of late has to do with the religion/atheism and creationism/evolution controversies, but he’s a much more important thinker than that. Dawkins is such a prolific thinker … Read more
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection provides a wonderful scientific explanation of biological adaptation and diversity. The theory is wonderful. The process of evolution itself is torturous, blind, indifferent, and cruel. And when you take a ruthless process, and mix it up with some extreme political and social ideology, what you get is … Read more
