Category Archives: Richard Dawkins

Dawkins Ducks Debate With Leading Christian Apologist

By Malgwyn | September 29, 2011

Polly Toynbee, President of the British Humanist Association, and Vice Presidents, Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling, are said to have pulled out of debating William Craig on his October tour of the UK. William Craig is a world leading Christian apologist of whom Sam Harris is reported to have said, he is “the one [...]

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Dawkins Is Rude To Texas Governor Rick Perry

By Malgwyn | September 18, 2011

The article shows him to be rude to many others but is it new for Professor Dawkins? He calls the Texas governor a ‘fool’ for questioning the ‘fact’ of evolution reports CMI.

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘WHY GOD WON’T GO AWAY’

By Malgwyn | March 28, 2011

Says, Dr. Stephen Hayes, ‘Professor Alistair McGrath is something of a modern day C S Lewis. A prominent Anglican Christian writer formerly based at the University of Oxford [Ed: now London], like Lewis (who took on the anti-Christian intellectuals of his day such as George Bernard Shaw and J B S Haldane), he [...]

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Junkie Meets Jesus in A Trash Can

By Malgwyn | January 14, 2011

Coming to Richard Dawkins, here is another ‘Change of Heart’ story - all due to exposure to Christianity. Colin Garnett grew up in Stockport, South Manchester, in a tough working-class culture. Teenage involvement with alcohol, amphetamines and violence led to an adult heroin addiction which saw him doing time in twenty-seven prisons! But in 1993 in [...]

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Tony Blair V Christopher Hitchens In Faith Debate

By Malgwyn | December 5, 2010

“It won’t be broadcast on BBC World until January 1, 2011, but the word is already out on the debate on Friday, November 26. It was between the fit Tony Blair, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and writer Christopher Hitchens, one of the “new atheists” (along with such others Richard Dawkins and [...]

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Review: ‘The Loser Letters’ by Mary Eberstadt

By Malgwyn | October 15, 2010

In earlier post I thought that The Loser Letters: ‘A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism‘ by Mary Eberstadt looks a good read. I was not disappointed - I couldn’t put it down. This is about atheism V belief - serious stuff couched in the witty and comical. It is as the Product Description [...]

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Michael Behe: Intelligent Design Scientist Tours The UK In November

By Malgwyn | October 1, 2010

The New UK-Based Centre for Intelligent Design has just announced a November lecture tour featuring Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, Michael Behe. The tour will include lectures in Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and London. Beginning in Warwick on November 20 the Group’s press release about the tour can be found here.
There should be a good reception for the [...]

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62.5% Still Say God Created The Universe!

By Malgwyn | September 24, 2010

There is nothing like something controversial for selling books, especially on science and origins. The promotion of Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design, was given higher than usual profile with reviewers and reporters reporting that Hawking had reversed his original view that God might be responsible for the creation of the universe. He now says physics [...]

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China Is Beginning to See Christianity As Good For Business

By Malgwyn | September 24, 2010

“Far from being regarded as a religious oddity, the impact of Christian-run businesses is now being studied by Chinese government officials.
The BBC report from China says, “the notion that newfound faith can inspire a workforce to increased levels of productivity is being taken seriously not only by Christian businessmen, but by China’s Communist - and [...]

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Stephen Hawking Says There Is No God

By Malgwyn | September 17, 2010

Well, that’s more or less the way the secular press reported on Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design. There are at least two questions I find myself asking from the reports, as we simple non-scientific lay-folk tend to do. The first arises from the idea that the cosmos could have come into being through the [...]

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