1. My Response to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Comment #177348 by transylvanian on May 9, 2008 at 12:48 am

I concur, "Pwned."

2. How to reconcile Richard Dawkins?

Comment #172417 by transylvanian on April 29, 2008 at 2:42 pm

This article is pretty much crap.

3. Interview with Dan Dennett

Comment #167724 by transylvanian on April 24, 2008 at 9:35 am

"A man who has had to "forgive" his friends for praying for him during a life-threatening heart illness..." That's a little extreme, eh?

4. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #150044 by transylvanian on March 26, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Happy Birthday, Richard!

The last year saw me read your work for the first time. You have opened my eyes in far too many ways to mention here. Thank you, and here's to hoping you'll be around for a fair bit longer. Lord knows we need you now more than ever.

My regards to Lalla as well!

5. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149243 by transylvanian on March 25, 2008 at 10:07 am

Haha... very amusing that Richard hadn't heard of Ben Stein... that whiny voice is sort of a minor pop-culture landmark in the States and Canada. There's even a game-show... "Win Ben Stein's Money." I always reacted to him with indifference, until I found out that he was amongst the religious right, and then he was annoying to me. I believe he's had *some* OK film roles... but I won't say memorable ones, cos I can't remember them.

Anyway what a terrible racket this whole thing is. I hope that the film does get theatrical exposure and totally bombs at the box office.

ALTHOUGH... "Darwin influnced Hitler" might be a little straightforward, but Darwin's books influenced his cousin Frances Galton's ideas about eugenics, which definitely influenced the Nazis' ideas about racial purity. This is pretty well-documented

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

6. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Comment #146033 by transylvanian on March 18, 2008 at 1:51 pm

If an audio edition is done, it should be read by Richard and Lalla, like the God Delusion and Ancestor's Tale. Richard could read the intros and Lalla the articles or vice versa. I would buy that the day it came out.

7. THE FOUR HORSEMEN - Available Now on DVD!

Comment #143184 by transylvanian on March 13, 2008 at 3:14 pm

There are moments in this where I feel like slapping Hitchens across the face! J/K, but still, he asserts that he wouldn't wish a world where there were no religious believers. Neither would I, but the difference is that I'm not a staunch atheist; why would one advocate a position so strongly if they didn't want to see it realized? Dawkins points out that he seems to love the theatre of argument, and advocates that we can reason and develop our intellects without religion. Basically Chris gets PWNED a bit there IMO