A Devil's Chaplain

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• Dawkins versus the priests and New Age shamans? No contest

  A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins Weidenfeld & Nicolson £16.99, pp264 Consider this experiment in temporal ingenuity. You are holding your mother's left hand. At the same time, she clutches her own mother, your grandmother, with her right. Your g ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• A callous world

  A Devil's Chaplain & Other Selected Essays by Richard Dawkins 320pp, Weidenfeld, £16.99 Richard Dawkins's new book, which is a punchy collection of articles, reflections, polemics, book reviews, forewords, tributes and elegies delivered over the past ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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• Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Sel ... (continue)

  Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.

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  Complications said on Mar 11, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  To quote a few words:

  On evolution:
  “If there is mercy in nature, it is accidental.”
  “Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
  (天地不仁，此之謂)

  On religion:
  “There may be some deep question about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think ... (continue)

  To quote a few words:

  On evolution:
  “If there is mercy in nature, it is accidental.”
  “Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
  (天地不仁，此之謂)

  On religion:
  “There may be some deep question about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think that they are therefore not beyond religion too.”
  “Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labeling device in history.”

  If you choose to read ONE book from Dawkins, pick “The Selfish Gene”, this one is a follow-up of the classic.

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  wankola said on Aug 26, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• eBook 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0297865420
• ISBN-13: 9780297865421
• Publisher: Orion
• Pub date: Nov 25, 2010
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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