11th May 2008 : As I've mentioned many times (for example, here) at 3QD, Richard Dawkins has been one of my greatest intellectual heroes since I first read The Selfish Gene and then The Blind Watchmaker in college. I was recently fortunate enough to spend some time with Richard in New York City. When about to meet someone whom one holds in as high esteem as I do Richard, one is often a bit apprehensive that the flesh-and-blood person behind the works that one has so admired might not live up to the inflated demigod of one's imagination, and so I was a bit nervous as I walked over to Richard's hotel to pick him up.

5th May 2008 : "Rock star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive complex and describes his part in it -- and the vital role it's going to play in understanding our universe.

5th May 2008 : For those who have the stomach, here's Glenn Beck interviewing Ben Stein from a few days ago. Stein mentions our site in it, which new visitor exp(2*i*pi) says directed him here, so I guess the show served some purpose! I'm sure most of us are a little worn out on the whole Expelled thing, so don't feel bad about quickly moving along to the next post....

4th May 2008 : On April 29th, 2008, Richard Dawkins was interviewed by Fanny Kiefer on Vancouver, BC's Shaw TV.

3rd May 2008 : 27/4/08 : Devotees believe this ritual is good for the health of the child.

3rd May 2008 : 16 Apr 08: Neanderthal expert Dr Chris Stringer discusses new ideas of how neanderthals and early man co-existed with Telegraph Science Editor Dr Roger Highfield.

27th Apr 2008 : What a vile little man. I sincerely hope that his career is dead now … and that the rest of his life will be spent eking out speaking fees at Christian fundamentalist conventions, before audiences who will cheer him while dreaming of the day the Jews are exterminated or converted, bringing on Armageddon.

17th Apr 2008 : Anticipating success with their feature film Expelled, Producers Mark Mathis, Logan Craft and Walt Ruloff have already leaked a teaser trailer for the film's sequel.

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14th Apr 2008 : Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss sat down for a public discussion at Stanford University on Sunday, March 9th 2008. The focus was on Science education, but the discussion also covered religion, physics, evolution and more. This video will be released on DVD soon at RichardDawkins.net , along with other unmoderated discussions with Richard Dawkins.

11th Apr 2008 : Richard Dawkins was the guest tonight on Real Time With Bill Maher.

8th Apr 2008 : Well said Mr. Olbermann.

8th Apr 2008 : "Christopher and Peter Hitchens, throughout a long estrangement and recent reconciliation, have clashed in print on many issues. On April 3, 2008, the Hauenstein Center, with support from the Center for Inquiry and the Interfaith Dialogue Association, will bring the two together on a stage for the first time to debate numerous issues, from the Bible to the bomb."

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8th Apr 2008 : Nicky Campbell hosts a series of moral, ethical and religious debates live from the West London Academy, Northolt. Panellists are: writer and broadcaster, Cristina Odone; The Rt Rev Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark; Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet from the Mill Hill Synagogue; and the winner for this year's Costa Prize for Fiction, AL Kennedy. The special guest will be the renowned atheist, scientist and writer, Professor Richard Dawkins.

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21st Mar 2008 : This is a short clip from an upcoming discussion between PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins. I thought I should post the relevant piece about the film Expelled today.

6th Mar 2008 : Those clever Irish atheists merely beat the Irish Catholics to their domain name…so it should be up indefinitely.

2nd Mar 2008 : From the HBO special, "It's Bad for Ya.", 3-1-2008

1st Mar 2008 : Christopher Hitchens was one of the guests on Real Time with Bill Maher on Feb 29th, 2008.

29th Feb 2008 : Ayaan Hirsi Ali went from political Islam to apostasy. How has her attitude toward the religion changed?

28th Feb 2008 : Channel 4's Holy Offensive is a documentary that examines two highly
publicised clashes between artistic freedom and religious belief in
today's Britain. Both are from the world of theatre, an art form
usually thought of as old-fashioned, but which keeps finding itself at
the cutting edge of contemporary culture wars.

27th Feb 2008 : Don't answer that, Mister Huckabee. And the pandering is on both sides of the aisle. This video from The Interfaith Alliance proves what I said in December of 2006, that athiest author "Sam Harris and company will have to hold their noses when Obama gives his acceptance speech in Denver…"

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24th Feb 2008 : This isn't "Part 2" in our 3-part tales videos, but this is a youtube video created by RodHullIAmHim for an actual section in The Ancestor's Tale, called "The Salamander's Tale". The audio is from the audiobook version, read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward.

21st Feb 2008 : A guide at the Natural History Museum stated confidently that a particular dinosaur was 70,000,008 years old. When asked how he could be so precise he replied, "Well it was 70 million when I started this job, and that was eight years ago." The evident experience of Valentina Cruz, our wonderful Galápagos naturalist guide, suggests that I must add a similar margin to the estimate of 100 years that she gave us for the age of the black lava fields on the island of Santiago. The exact date of the great Santiago eruption is not recorded, but it definitely happened on one particular day in one particular year around 1900. I shall call it SV day (Santiago volcano day). I need to seem as precise as the museum guide, although the exact date doesn't matter. Perhaps it was January 19 1897, 100 plus eight years before my visit to the island.

21st Feb 2008 : Here's a nice illustration of the evidence behind our understanding of the evolution of whales, all in 7 minutes.

20th Feb 2008 : Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter sit down for a discussion at Digital Life Design 2008. John Brockman moderates.

18th Feb 2008 : BAFTA award-winning director Amelia Hann uncovers the unsettling and often disturbing world of child evangelism, following pint-sized preachers Samuel Boutwell from Mississippi, crowd-pleasing Terry Durham from Florida and Brazilian sensation Ana Carolina Dias who began preaching at just three years old and regularly commands TV audiences of millions.

18th Feb 2008 : Bill Moyers interviews author Susan Jacoby on the separation of church and state in America today, and why she believes preserving the sanctity of American secularism is fundamental to democracy and to the benefit of both religion and government.

15th Feb 2008 : From the 60 Second Science Podcast.

15th Feb 2008 : A few things scientists don't want to admit about their "theories" of evolution and gravity which have been disproven by some simple demonstrations from a show that used to be on comedy central.

11th Feb 2008 : Bill Maher reasserts his right to think religion is harmful and say so.

10th Feb 2008 : Full version of the Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Debate at New York's 92nd Street Y.

10th Feb 2008 :

9th Feb 2008 : A clip from the FOX TV show "House"

7th Feb 2008 :

6th Feb 2008 : Christopher Hitchens sits down with PlumTV's Jage Toba for a casual half-hour interview. Hitchens speaks on a variety of topics ranging from religion and politics to Monty Python and Orwell.

6th Feb 2008 :

6th Feb 2008 : Houghton Mifflin has posted another interview clip with Richard promoting The God Delusion. This one deals specifically with the book.

5th Feb 2008 : Emory University, 5-16-2007

2nd Feb 2008 : The curse of monotheism.

1st Feb 2008 : P.Z. Myers, biologist at the University of Minnesota Morris, host of the website Pharyngula( http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ ), and indefatigable defender of evolution, shares his expertise and insights on brain function, explaining how research into the brain reveals the evolutionary causes of religious belief.

29th Jan 2008 : Nicky Campbell and Sonia Deol host a series of moral, ethical and religious debates on topical issues live from Oxford. On the panel are former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, Professor Richard Dawkins, Ann Widdecombe MP and Jonathan Bartley, joined by special guest John Barrowman.

29th Jan 2008 : Richard Dawkins discusses the role of religion in schools with other panel members on The Big Debate.

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22nd Jan 2008 : Pat Condell on Islam.

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21st Jan 2008 : Mitt Romney's candidacy took a major hit following the discovery of statements he made a decade ago that imply he isn't sickened by gays.

20th Jan 2008 : A new music video to the song "We're all going to hell" by The Bastard Fairies. Watch for Hitchens' book cameo in the middle. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

17th Jan 2008 : Stephen's guest is Neil Shubin author of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body.

17th Jan 2008 : The world is full of misinformation.

Interesting how most of the Young Earth Creationists and people pushing Intelligent Design, clearly don't have an education in the biological sciences. Evolution is the product of Natural Selection AND Mutation. Either alone does nothing.

16th Jan 2008 : (I)n Warren, Michigan on Monday, Huckabee declared his personal crusade to amend the Constitution by copying and pasting from the Bible

9th Jan 2008 : Comedian Marcus Brigstocke interviews Richard Dawkins on The Late Edition, BBC Four. The program was recorded on Thursday 18th October 2007.

8th Jan 2008 : Pat Condell on Pat Robertson's 2007 prediction.

4th Jan 2008 : Does God Exist? A debate between best-selling authors Rabbi David Wolpe and Sam Harris.

31th Dec 2007 : This video covers the rise of Intelligent Design through the lens of the Dover trial. Interviews the major players on both sides, and features brief appearances by Richard Dawkins and David Attenborough. Includes some interesting pieces not seen before, such as a short interview with the Director of the Vatican Observatory (an astrophysicist who thinks Intelligent Design is anti-scientific nonsense).

30th Dec 2007 : I realized we hadn't posted this video yet on RichardDawkins.net. It's the 10-minute short film created by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh, highlighting the oppression of women in Islam.

29th Dec 2007 : A little George Carlin to keep you laughing.

29th Dec 2007 : The BBC sent us a copy of the video, so I thought we'd post it as a new article.

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21st Dec 2007 : There are 2.1 billion Christians on the planet – roughly one third of the entire human population. At the heart of their religion is the New Testament and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To Christianity, the written word is the glue that binds the faith of its followers.

18th Dec 2007 : The ad for electronic goods retailers Betta Electrical recreates the Christian nativity scene, showing three wise men offering gifts to baby Jesus as he lies in the manger.

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17th Dec 2007 : I thought I'd post a little full-quality clip of The Four Horsemen discussion on Christmas.

14th Dec 2007 : On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen.

13th Dec 2007 : When they talk astronomy, you can almost be sure they will trot out long-outdated ideas, ridiculous twists of logic, and outright lies. And now you can find all these and more in a series of videos pointed out by Sadly, No!

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12th Dec 2007 : Islam's compatibility with democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech is a subject of immense salience and importance in the early 21st century. In the Royal Society of Arts in London, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who lives under a death threat imposed by Muslim fundamentalists, debates this problem with Timothy Garton-Ash, who has in the past criticised her for being an 'enlightenment fundamentalist'.

10th Dec 2007 :

10th Dec 2007 : A sign posted by Atheists in the Rockville's Central Park has people talking, prompting calls to the town hall and the local clergy.

8th Dec 2007 : Norm had this one as well on onegoodmove.org, so I thought I'd share it. Keith Olberman talks about the Romney speech.

8th Dec 2007 : Bill's guest Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America does a pretty good job of respresenting the atheist position.

7th Dec 2007 : BBC special on the spiritual fraud, self proclaimed god in human form, Shri Sathya Sai Baba.

6th Dec 2007 :

6th Dec 2007 : On one side of the Atlantic sits Lord Black. On the other, Judge Luigi Tosti. Both are convicted criminals, both proclaim their cause and their innocence.

6th Dec 2007 : Fox & Friends launched a salvo in the War on Christmas Monday, attacking an atheist group's "tree of knowledge" erected in front of a Philadelphia courthouse alongside a creche and menorah, while ignoring a 32-foot tree dedicated to "commercial attraction" in the same public square.

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4th Dec 2007 : I swear, they're trying to see how stupid they can get before my head explodes.

3rd Dec 2007 : Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.

3rd Dec 2007 : Beyond Belief 07 videos!

3rd Dec 2007 : DECEMBER 03, 2007 - MSNBC MORNING JOE

1st Dec 2007 : Dinesh D'Souza, Christian and best-selling author, faced off against Tufts professor, author, and atheist Daniel Dennett in a debate on the existence of god.

30th Nov 2007 : Crowds of people have marched in Sudan's capital Khartoum to call for a tougher sentence for a British teacher imprisoned for insulting religion.

29th Nov 2007 : This is the extended version of the Allan Gregg interview from a few weeks back.

29th Nov 2007 : Ayaan Hirsi Ali was the guest tonight on Anderson Cooper 360.

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29th Nov 2007 : Ayaan will probably be on Anderson Cooper tonight (10 pm Eastern). Can someone record the video of it and send it in?

26th Nov 2007 : It is one thing to correct Michael Behe (some structure guy) with zero HIV-1 research experience on HIV-1 evolution. But considering the sheer number of DI 'fellows' who are lawyers, and the fact Im just a biology student with zero experience in law... I found it rather strange that I caught something the DI lawyers evidently had no problem with...

20th Nov 2007 : From the Fox News program "Your World with Neil Cavuto."

19th Nov 2007 : Christopher Hitchens is a contrarian and author. He's the contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Slate, and this past year he released his controversial book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

This interview took place in a Shul (A place of prayer for Jews) and it is customary for even non-believers to wear a yarmulke on the premises.

16th Nov 2007 : Beliefs, and believers, come in many shapes and sizes, and not all of them can be described as 'religious'. This program provides an introduction to a fascinating range of non-religious people and their beliefs. Features an interview with Richard Dawkins.

16th Nov 2007 : NOVA's program "Judgement Day : Intelligent Design on Trial" is now available to watch for free online!

15th Nov 2007 : I'm trying to find the extended 'Expelled' trailer which was online a few weeks ago. It supposedly went up, and then quickly disappeared. It featured Richard being grossly misedited. This version has now disappeared from the internet and only the abbreviated trailer remains. Does anyone have a copy of the original? I'd really like to find it so we can repost and bring attention to it. Can anyone help us out with this request?

13th Nov 2007 : The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is proud to announce that it is now offering Richard Dawkins' 1991 Royal Institution Lectures for Children titled "Growing Up in the Universe" free online!

11th Nov 2007 : A short interview clip 'preview.'