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I checked with my publisher, who informs me that the book has been purchased for translation by publishers in the following countries.
ITALY Codice
SPAIN Editorial Critica
PORTUGAL Edicoes tinta-da-china
JAPAN Nikkei Business Publications, PRC KeAi Communications
ISRAEL Books ...
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In today’s TLS , a chemist from the UK protests Thomas Nagel’s choice of a creationist screed (Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell ) as a 2009 book of the year:
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Sir, – The belief that we share this planet with supernatural beings is an old one. Students of magic ...
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Take five minutes and go over to The Big Picture at boston.com , where you’ll find 25 stunning photos that were entered this year’s National Geographic international photo contest . (You can vote for the “viewers’ choice winners at the NG website.) It’s nice to ...
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Speaking of the TLS , in today’s issue Matthew Cobb has a nice review of two new books:
Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis, editors
EVOLUTION
The first four billion years
1,008pp. Harvard University Press. Paperback, £25.95 (US $39.95).
978 0 6740 3175 3
Jonathan Silvertown, editor ...
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In last week’s New York Times , Nicholas Kristof touted the books of Karen Armstrong and Robert Wright (as well as that of his colleague Nicholas Wade) as a welcome relief, “less combative and more throughtful”, from the last crop of atheist books:
I’m hoping that the ...
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I’ve had my differences with Andrew Sullivan, especially over the compatibility of science and religion, but today he gets plaudits for his post, “Leaving the right” over at the Daily Dish. In this post he gives a long list of reasons why he can’t support ...
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by Greg Mayer
As part of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside’s Darwin 1809-1859-2009 series commemorating the Darwin bicentennial and Origin sesquicentennial (some of the earlier events noticed here and here ), Jerry spoke on ‘Why Evolution is True’ on Sept. 9 of this ...
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Charles Darwin
Why Evolution is True has been translated into several languages, and this month I received two new ones, the Spanish and Chinese versions. Immodestly, I present them here.
The Chinese edition, which has a forward by my Chicago colleague Manyuan Long, represented a difficult ...
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Over at the Times Literary Supplement , an estimable organ for which I’ve written frequently, philosopher Thomas Nagel has blurbed an ID book, Discovery Institute darling Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell , as one of the books of the year for 2009:
Stephen C. Meyer’s ...
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Online here : a debate on “atheism as fundamentalism”. It’s just starting (2:15 EST), so watch now. Harries and Moore vs. Dawkins and Grayling:
For the first time, Intelligence Squared will be live-streaming a debate on this page :
“Atheism is the new ...
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If you have 2.25 hours to spare (I don’t today, but I’ll look soon), they’ve posted the Ciudad de las Ideas religion debate, which I missed when I was in Mexico, on YouTube.
Against faith: Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens
The faithful for faith: Shmuley ...
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Well, in your collective wisdom you’ve guessed it
(as I knew you would). These are in fact...
The Spandrels of San Marco (as one astute reader pointed out, they’re not really spandrels but pendentives ) from the Basilica in Venice. I ...
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It’s a spandrel! (sort of . . .)
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I’d have another contest about this, but a) it’s too easy and b) I have to ration my book supply. Still, you’ll look really smart if you explain why I’m just now putting this photo on this website, giving the relevant referents. No prize except a warm handshake.
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Over at his website, James Randi attacks the notion that the Belgian man who supposedly emerged from a 23-year coma, claiming his was conscious all the while, is now engaged in facilitated communication. A “helper” holds the guy’s hand while he supposedly chooses letters on ...
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Although the video is only seven seconds long, it’s important: this is the first film ever taken of the elusive Borneo bay cat , Catopuma badia , the world’s rarest cat. (The film, courtesy of the Global Canopy Programme, is on the link. Click on the lower left, not the upper ...
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I am delighted to see a pungent exchange between Robert Wright in the New York Times and Christopher Hitchens in Slate . (It’s about a week old, but I’m just back). Wright more or less blames American belligerence against Islam as the forces producing the shooting spree by Major ...
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whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com - 5 days ago
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It always amuses me when an accommodationist tells
the faithful that no, there is no conflict between...
science and religion, at least not if they stopped believing the things that cause a conflict. In a Darwin-anniversay piece on CNN, Michael ...
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Michael Shermer, theologian
I will be back Friday and, I hope, resume posting. Thanks to Matthew and Greg (who has been ill with pneumonia) for filling in with me. I have some tales and some swell holiday snaps.
In the meantime, what is all this about the proper pronounciation of “van Gogh”??? None of ...
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The Dutch produced three of my dozen favorite painters (see below), an amazing yield for so small a land. Amsterdam houses museums for two of them—Rembrandt and van Gogh—and the Rijksmuseum also has a few specimens from the limited output of Vermeer. But perhaps a sunny Saturday was not a good ...
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I see that Matthew has tried to plug the gap produced by yesterday’s missing felid, putting up an estimable post about pine martens. But here, albeit a day late, is a real felid.
This cat would definitely be at home in Chicago. Meet Timor, a Bengal cat owned by the friend of a friend. ...
