Richard Dawkins

Dawkins’ Employee Charged With Embezzling $375,000 From RDF Charity

by podblack on October 24, 2010

Oh. Wow. Bloody hell wow. From Courthouse News Service: GLENDALE, Calif. (CN) – Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins claims an employee of his Foundation for Reason and Science embezzled $375,000 from the online store he ran for Dawkins’ charity, by claiming it made only $30,000 in 3 years. …Because legal requirements imposed by [...]

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Richard Dawkins at Protest the Pope Rally in London, September 2010

by podblack on September 19, 2010

Thanks to Bridget M for the find! Oh, and this was posted on Twitter, by TheManWhoFell:

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A Short Note On Dawkins And Anti-Fantasy Reading For Children Sentiments At #TAM8

by podblack on July 11, 2010

From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment: “Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to see others [...]

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Introduction To Atheism And Ideas Of God For Teens – What Would You Suggest?

by podblack on June 25, 2010

So — the challenge over my holidays is to start introducing students to religion! And atheism! This is really going to be a lot of fun! The program involves ‘Ideas of God’ and ‘Religious and Mystical Experience’. While I can find a variety of useful general texts (the likes of AC Grayling, Stephen J Gould, [...]

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What Julie (Bishop) Asked Richard (Dawkins) – An Embiggen Books Lecture

by podblack on June 4, 2010

It’s been a surprisingly draining and interesting week for me. Suddenly, seemingly without warning, it’s now half-term and I’ll be tidying up around the place, finalising many projects and doing some editing. Hopefully, catching up on a few written pieces I owe to people and maybe getting more podcast interviews done. I suspect that the [...]

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Further Developments In #Boobquake (No Pun Intended)

by podblack on April 23, 2010

Just a update, from a CNN news article: Blogger: Show cleavage to test cleric’s quake theory ..She said no woman should feel pressured to participate. “It’s not supposed to be serious activism that is going to revolutionize women’s rights, but just a bit of fun juvenile humor,” she wrote. “I’m a firm believer that when [...]

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Podblack Finds For 12th April 2010

by podblack on April 12, 2010

A quick-round up for the start of the week – then it’s back to work for me! Firstly – Jim Wallace is not happy about ethics classes being offered to students from NSW as an alternative to scripture… Opinion, The Age: You can’t teach ethics without referring to Christianity: With our nation having just played [...]

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I’m For Sale On eBay!

by podblack on April 7, 2010

Kind of! Okay, it’s a fundraiser, one of two that you can get – go bid on a poster! Signed poster from 2010 Global Atheist Convention – all proceeds to support the Atheist Foundation of Australia’s Celebrate Reason Bus Campaign. ONLY 15 of these posters exist of which just two are being made available for [...]

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