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CNN’s live footage that morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9jkBGFlr0 (More here.) END

The anti-theist soap opera continues. PZ used to fawn over Dawkins, but no longer. I was surprised Dawkins didn’t even give so much as a tweet for PZ’s book, now it is apparent why — the two don’t seem to be bosom buddies anymore. PZ writes: I’ve strained to pardon Richard Dawkins’ many insensitivities — ‘dear muslima’, the missteps on twitter, the petty snits against other people — but his latest is just a disaster. In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7), Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called “the mild pedophilia” he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s. … other children in his Read More ›

The God Question (website here), a TV series bringing together world renowned contributors on both sides of the debate on God and science, asks whether there is design in the Universe. The series features figures of note in the intelligent design community, including Stephen Meyer, Douglas Axe, Bill Dembski, John Lennox, and our own Denyse O’Leary. In addition, the series features leading figures on the other side of the debate, including Peter Atkins, Michael Ruse, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and many others. For a complete list of contributors, see this page. Divided into three programs, dealing with “The Cosmos“, “Life and Evolution“, and “Mind and Consciousness“, the series is spectacularly produced and commendably provides a fair and balanced discussion of Read More ›