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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Durro » Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:45 am

The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by charlou » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:33 pm

Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What a coincidence ... ;)


Good read so far. :tup:
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:41 pm

Charlou wrote:
Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What a coincidence ... ;)


Good read so far. :tup:
Ooh, have got that on order, should arrive next week. Don't spoil the ending for me....
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Post by Animavore » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:07 pm

Just finished

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:21 pm

I'm reading the Prothero at the mo too :tup:
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Post by Animavore » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:28 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm reading the Prothero at the mo too :tup:
Its really good. Jerry Coyne's one too. Next is Richards one I guess. Although I don't really feel like reading 3 evolution books in a row.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Sep 04, 2009 4:32 pm

Animavore wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm reading the Prothero at the mo too :tup:
Its really good. Jerry Coyne's one too. Next is Richards one I guess. Although I don't really feel like reading 3 evolution books in a row.

If you read three evolution books in a row, Ken Ham will come out of a mirror and ravish you. Something like that.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by klr » Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:36 pm

Charlou wrote:
Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What a coincidence ... ;)


Good read so far. :tup:
About to start reading ... unless I get sidetracked by, er, tank tracks. :shifty:

Among a number of other recent purchases: The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans, finally released in paperback. :read:
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Post by tattuchu » Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:07 pm

Eye In the Sky by Philip K Dick :-)
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Post by Red Katie » Mon Sep 07, 2009 3:44 am

I'm reading The Portable Atheist, with introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Surprisingly interesting, and with some good poetry.
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Post by leo-rcc » Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:24 pm

I am reading Shelley - The necessity of atheism. Written in 1811
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Post by Cormac » Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:54 pm

Red Katie wrote:I'm reading The Portable Atheist, with introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Surprisingly interesting, and with some good poetry.
It is a good read isn't it?

I particularly liked seeing such deep thought about matters atheistic going back so far. :)
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Post by Red Katie » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:31 pm

Cormac wrote:
Red Katie wrote:I'm reading The Portable Atheist, with introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Surprisingly interesting, and with some good poetry.
It is a good read isn't it?

I particularly liked seeing such deep thought about matters atheistic going back so far. :)
I agree.

Did you ever read St. Anselm's original propounding of the ontological argument? He set forth the arguments for atheism (which, where did he get them?) brilliantly, then offered a bunch of word salad to oppose them. I think Anselm was a closet atheist.
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Post by Cormac » Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:41 pm

Red Katie wrote:
Cormac wrote:
Red Katie wrote:I'm reading The Portable Atheist, with introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Surprisingly interesting, and with some good poetry.
It is a good read isn't it?

I particularly liked seeing such deep thought about matters atheistic going back so far. :)
I agree.

Did you ever read St. Anselm's original propounding of the ontological argument? He set forth the arguments for atheism (which, where did he get them?) brilliantly, then offered a bunch of word salad to oppose them. I think Anselm was a closet atheist.
That is what I thought too!

It seemed to me reading The Portable Atheist that many of the older time thinkers were much the same. Put forth the strong arguments for the atheist side, and then demonstrate the emptiness of the opposition whilst pretending to be part of it. A fifth column...
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