1. Richard Dawkins on five of his favorite books

Comment #135653 by Delphine on February 29, 2008 at 7:21 am

Among my favourite fiction:

An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears)
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
The Blood Doctor (Barbara Vine)
... and many more (including the Harry Potter books)

2. How the Public Resolves Conflicts Between Faith and Science

Comment #70387 by Delphine on September 15, 2007 at 8:19 am

Medical advances and other new technologies have practical results that people can see, but many religious people don't see the same sort of "proof" for evolutionary "theory".

3. Good News: Both our Foundations are now Officially Recognized as Charities

Comment #70296 by Delphine on September 14, 2007 at 7:02 pm

Hooray! That is great news.

4. Your favorite book in the last 25 years?

Comment #37228 by Delphine on May 3, 2007 at 7:06 pm

To name just a few others, not (yet) mentioned (in no particular order)--

Suite française / Irène Némirovsky (written ca. 1940 but the manuscript just recently edited and published for the first time)
Saturday / Ian MacEwan
An Instance of the Fingerpost / Iain Pears
Wild Swans : three daughters of China / Jung Chang
The Song of Names / Norman Lebrecht
Small Island / Andrea levy
Captain Corelli's Mandolin / Louis de Bernières