Tag: Richard Dawkins
California Metamorphosis Premiere Stars Live Butterflies
A thousand people responded with long, resounding applause to Illustra’s new film, Metamorphosis, at its California premiere on Saturday. The auditorium was filled and the audience was thrilled, especially at the very end when the stars of the show made a surprise appearance.
Among Darwin Advocates, Premature Celebration over Abundance of Habitable Planets
“Our Solar System looks ever more like the exception, and it is exceptional in ways that are life friendly.”
UK Atheist Finally Agrees to Debate William Lane Craig
Richard Dawkins still nowhere to be found, the head of the British Humanist Association agrees to vindicate the honor of atheists everywhere.
Darwin v. Design Conference Coming to Oklahoma to Address Debate Over Science and God
The good news is that the new atheists are wrong. Far from establishing a blind and purposeless universe, the findings of science increasingly provide powerful evidence that we live in a purpose-driven universe of incredible beauty and design.
Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth Shies Away from Intelligent Design but Unwittingly Vindicates Michael Behe
Richard Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is being touted as a scathing rebuttal to intelligent design (ID), yet an actual response to mainstream ID thinking can hardly be found in the book. Though the book makes passing mention of “irreducible complexity” in a couple places, there are zero mentions of leading ID proponents like Michael Behe, William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Phillip Johnson, Stephen Meyer, or any other well-known ID proponent. Instead, Dawkins refers extensively to “creationists,” repeatedly attacking young earth creationism, while also making heavy use of fallacious (and dubious) “poor design” examples that rebut no argument made by a leading advocate of design since perhaps the 19th century. It seems that Dawkins didn’t have the stomach Read More ›