Showing posts with label awe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awe. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

Coming Soon: The Greatest Show on Earth

The blogosphere surrounding those of us of certain pursuasions and inclinations is all abuzz with anticipation for the new book by Richard Dawkins -- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Coming relatively hard on the heels of Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution Is True, these counter-attacks to the fundamentalist attempts to hijack the education and political process are all about the science.  Well, there may be a little other stuff thrown in, too.



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You can find more information at:

The Why Evolution is True blog

and

The Greatest Show on Earth page at RichardDawkins.net

Friday, August 14, 2009

How Really, Really Big Can Make You Feel Really, Really Small

Thanks to PZ Myers over at Pharyngula for this.  You can join the comment fest there if you wish.  I just wanted to share the video:

The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism
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