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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:14 am

Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Just started it myself! :tup:
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Post by Feck » Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:11 pm

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A well named book ,it's several inches thick .
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Mr P » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:23 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Charlou wrote:
Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What a coincidence ... ;)


Good read so far. :tup:
Ooh, have got that on order, should arrive next week. Don't spoil the ending for me....
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:25 pm

Mr P wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:
Charlou wrote:
Durro wrote:The Greatest Show On Earth - The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
What a coincidence ... ;)


Good read so far. :tup:
Ooh, have got that on order, should arrive next week. Don't spoil the ending for me....
As Richard drives off into the sunset with the replicant a ruined statue of liberty looms over the horizon, but he doesn't see it as they drive off the cliff!

But they were already dead anyway!!
Dead already? Does his zombie whisper "Rosebud" as it plummets from the cliff?
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:26 pm

Feck wrote:Image

A well named book ,it's several inches thick .
Ah, one of my fave novelizations of the Arthurian legends. Good work!
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Re: What are you reading now?

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:41 pm

I just finished The Greatest show on Earth. Certainly a good read, but most of it is stuff I already know, and it gets tedious hearing the same arguments for the existence of an ancient Earth and an evolved biosphere. Sometimes I think we should just ignore the cretinists...

I would like to read a book by Richard that set out his well reasoned arguments for his particular take on evolutionary mechanisms (one that I generally share), answering his more recent critics within the community of scientists who accept evolution, but have a somewhat different view of the details.

Right now, I have started to re-read Breaking the Spell, by Dan Dennett
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:43 pm

A little light reading...

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Re: What are you reading now?

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:22 pm

GRAND STRATEGY
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Post by AshtonBlack » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:44 pm

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Existentialist1844 » Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:45 am

Reading this for school:

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by aznxscorpion517 » Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:30 am

I will be reading The Golden Compass (The Northern Lights) for my Sci-Fi/Fantasy class.
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