Lets Talk About Things Science Cannot Explain

[Parson]

Nuts. Sorry about that I have tried to find it elsewhere but can't. Basically it's from a BBC kids programme called "All Over The Place" where both presenters do a faultless imitation of Brian Cox talking in part about men walking on the surface of "that White discy thing we call - 'the moon'... but don't look at that... Look at me... amazing!"

No problems. Thanks for the description.

 

[JunkMonkey]

re Horizon. I just came across a reference to it in the appendix in Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth. He describes Horizon as 'the BBC's (comparatively) up-market science documentary series'. I love the '(comparatively)' - and he was writing ten years ago - there's been a lot of dumbing down has flowed under the bridge since then.

 

[Ray Pullar]

Richard Dawkins had issues with Horizon reporting on supposed evolutionary controversies in 1982 (see The extended phenotype - Gould's punctuated equilibria theory). He disliked their journalistic eagerness to exaggerate disputes between biologists.

 

[BigBadBob141]

REF: Mosaix.
LOL!!!

 

[BAYLOR]

re Horizon. I just came across a reference to it in the appendix in Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth. He describes Horizon as 'the BBC's (comparatively) up-market science documentary series'. I love the '(comparatively)' - and he was writing ten years ago - there's been a lot of dumbing down has flowed under the bridge since then.

The God Delusion made him a household name.

 

[JunkMonkey]

He was pretty famous in our house for for having married Romana from Doctor Who.

 

[Ray Pullar]

Spouse of a minor tv actress once married to Dr. Who is not how Mr. D wants to be remembered. He would even prefer the evil atheist monicker like his hero Huxley.

 

[BAYLOR]

He was pretty famous in our house for for having married Romana from Doctor Who.

He did have a cameo on Dr Who.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

He was a good friend of Douglas Adams too!

 

[JunkMonkey]

So we all like Richard Dawkins then . He writes well too.

 

[BAYLOR]

He was a good friend of Douglas Adams too!

I liked Douglas Adams alot. It's hard to believe that he and Terry Pratchett are both gone.

It's just not fair , at all.

 

[Cathbad]

Adams was wild! Definitely an extrovert. Chatted with him at a Writer's Forum in Gainesville, Florida several years ago. He was the liveliest of the bunch! Piers Anthony was the most reserved panelist.

 

[J Riff]

Science cannot talk about hitchhiking round the galaxy. Everyone would do it and mess up the spaceways, which must be kept clear because..because of things science can't talk about.

 

[BAYLOR]

Science cannot talk about hitchhiking round the galaxy. Everyone would do it and mess up the spaceways, which must be kept clear because..because of things science can't talk about.

Then there's the whole Interstellar bypass issue.

 

[BAYLOR]

So we all like Richard Dawkins then . He writes well too.

His books are interesting.

 

[Cathbad]

Then there's the whole Interstellar bypass issue.

The Bypass construction continues to move slowly, and the cost overruns are bankrupting some of the smaller planets!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

So we all like Richard Dawkins then . He writes well too.

His biology/evolution books are brilliant, but he's become a media caricature of himself regarding atheism (something I strongly support), which is rather a shame.

 

[Parson]

Richard Dawkins' radical atheism makes it hard for me to hear his insights on biology and evolution.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Why? Because if he's right about evolution he may just be right about god/s too?

 

[BAYLOR]

His biology/evolution books are brilliant, but he's become a media caricature of himself regarding atheism (something I strongly support), which is rather a shame.

In my case, I accept evolution but I also believe in God. There is room for both.

Why? Because if he's right about evolution he may just be right about god/s too?

It's a big universe and is lots that we still don't know.