1. Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!

Comment #149907 by Jackie.Stone on March 26, 2008 at 10:26 am

Happy Birthday Professor Dawkins! I mentioned this to you at your book signing in NYC, but I'll say it again: Your beautiful, eloquent writing has really sparked my interest in biology. I was always interested in the sciences, but never realized how wonderful they truly were until I read Unweaving the Rainbow. Thank you so much for all of your work.

Jackie

2. EXPELLED!

Comment #147533 by Jackie.Stone on March 20, 2008 at 9:21 pm

I also commented on PZ's post, but I just can't get over how brilliant this is. Exemplary of the wonderful mix of hypocrisy and stupidity that is characteristic of creationists.

And I know many people on PZ's blog are saying that he should have protested and allowed himself to be arrested, but I don't see that anything positive could have come out of that. By turning the other cheek PZ ensured there is no way they can spin this story so that the atheists are the "bad guys".

3. DLD08 - Life: a gene-centric view

Comment #130484 by Jackie.Stone on February 20, 2008 at 4:50 pm

"Craig Venter seems says at one point that because our genome (and presumably that of other species too) has so much viral and bacterial DNA that it makes no sense to talk of "species" and that comparison of genomes to determine relatedness is also meaningless.Is this true or have I got it wrong?"

Indeed. This seems to be what their disagreement was about, right? I would be curious to hear from Prof. Dawkins about whether they discussed this anymore after the end of the public discussion, and whether they came to any sort of agreement?