The declining influence of poor Richard Dawkins...

[onager]

On Oct. 21, Dawkins will do a live appearance in Belfast, along with Lawrence Krauss. The occasion is a screening of the movie The Unbelievers, with Dawkins and Krauss doing a Q&A session afterwards.

With no advance publicity for the event, tickets sold out in 12 minutes.

The organizers added a second appearance, which also sold out immediately.

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/richard-dawkins-to-speak-in-belfast-1-6277707

Good thing Dawkins' influence in the atheist/skeptic community is rapidly waning, as I've read many times in A Certain DU Group. If that guy ever gets popular, no telling how much damage he will do.

[haikugal]

1. Wonderful..

They're great together. I wish I could attend. It's a real shame about Dawkins....Ha!

[bvf]

2. Wasn't familiar with Krauss and did a quick search.

Looks like some good reading.

Sorry to hear about Dawkins's fading away like this. . .

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Krauss is awesome. check out his liveblogging ripping Rick Perry, as he met the guy.

Priceless.

[AlbertCat]

10. Books I have read....

His books are great....though not "summer reading" (I have to keep re-reading things to make sure I got it)

The Physics of Star Trek (actually....this could be "summer reading"...great fun)

Quintessence (SO GOOD....but definitely not "summer reading&quot

Hiding in the Mirror (again, a great book...deep! No really it IS deep!)

And the easiest and best for knowing the general current consensus:

A Universe from Nothing

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Let me add...

Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond. 2002. Black Bay. ISBN 0-316-18309-1

Great book.

[AlbertCat]

13. Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

Ah yes! I forgot I read that one too!

What a great idea:

It follows the elementary particles that become an oxygen atom from the 1st moments of the Big Bang.....thru it's (very short) time on Earth, and within living things here.... to a probable distant future.

I may read it again. And these are all books you can reread over and over.

[bvf]

15. Thank you all

for the recommendations, AtheistCrusader, AlbertCat, and FiveGoodMen!

Also see that there was a recent Krauss clip posted in vids here--heading there right now.

[mr blur]

4. I knew that guy wouldn't last.

Bloody elitist professor with his big words and his fancy book-learnin'.

[trotsky]

7. Book-learnin'?!?

Why tarnation, let's git that bastard!

[Goblinmonger]

11. That's what makes him think he's so much better than everyone else. n/t

[trotsky]

17. I wonder if he knows about Scooby-Doo? n/t

[Heddi]

18. I wish he was more mundane

Less self-aware and not so perfect. Stop driving himself to only be the best

[NeoGreen]

5. Just to be clear...

... because accidently I dropped my secret decoder ring into the bag of "I can't believe it's not jesus" wafers during the Oklahoma Black Mass the other day...

The aforementioned "A Certain DU Group" is synonymous with our standard "the Other Group" and not some new group I need to review for my amusement while eating my leftover cold roast babies, correct?

[Warren Stupidity]

6. The cold leftover babies are great in smoothies

[mr blur]

8. Correct. (nt)

[AlbertCat]

9. No doubt both of these accomplished scientists....

..... will spend the whole session making jokes about women.

[onager]

14. Dawkins should stop his non-verbal abuse of Emma Watson...

[Neoma]

16. Photoshopped.

[haikugal]

19. Awesome!!

OMG who knew??!! Too funny....thanks for that.

[progressoid]

24. Also available in gif form...

[JDDavis]

25. FANTASTIC!

Is there an app that enables us to do that kind of morphing?

(Sorry, not too well-informed about these apps.)

[progressoid]

27. I'm sure there is some app around.

I found that gif via the google.


Also...

[Curmudgeoness]

20. I am sure that it sold out so fast

because everyone wanted to see the movie. And Krauss. Damn Dawkins just rides the coattails.

Yeah, that's it.

[Logical]

21. +1000! Your title fooled me! Nt

[Rob H.]

22. I was poking around on Netflix the other day, and 'The Unbelievers' is available now

God Loves Uganda is on there, too, so I'm sure I'll be checking it out soon even though documentaries like that depress the living hell out of me. (Jesus Camp was a twofer--depressing and creepy.)

[JDDavis]

23. THANKS for the tip! Watching it (Unbelievers) now.

Somehow, I never watched it before.

Some of the Muslim apologists appear a bit more irrational but equally arrogant as the Catholics.

[Gelliebeans]

26. Thanks for the heads up

I have added it to my list.