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----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:20 PM Subject: Re: The Dawkins in Bath etc > Douglas I thought that him being a humanist might give a clue to his > answer?? Patrick It is not as simple as that. Even though I am an atheist the thinking goes that we are programmed for G-d. And that is something we have to live with. I wanted to see if Dawkins militant atheism diverted him from the truth. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Clark > Sent: 26 February 2005 19:46 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: The Dawkins in Bath etc > > I forgot to add that I tried to ask a supplementary question off Dawkins > but > time had run out. It would have been: 'Do you think that we are programmed > in our DNA for religion'. > > Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England .... > http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:28 PM > Subject: The Dawkins in Bath etc > > >> The Bath Literature Festival has started and I will be very busy for the >> next week. I thought I would report my meeting with history this >> afternoon! >> >> Richard and Lalla gave a reading in tandem from his new book 'The >> Ancestors >> Tale' in Bath this afternoon. >> >> A couple of weeks ago I read Michael Ruse's 'Darwin and Design' and also >> listened to a BBC Radio4 discussion with Simon Conway Morris so I had a >> question in my mind which I asked Richard when he was accepting questions >> after the reading (which I didnt pay much attention to). The question >> was: >> 'What do you think of the idea that evolution is a random walk to >> complexity?' and I added 'Do you see progress in evolution?' He >> immediately >> replied that he did see progress in evolution but not as a random walk to >> complexity. I couldnt really make out what else he continued saying as I >> couldnt extract any coherent meaning. My fault..sorry about that. >> >> And that was my ten seconds of fame. I thought I should report it here. >> >> Then Nikolai Tolstoy gave a brilliant account of the life of his >> stepfather >> Patrick O'Brian. Speaking without notes for an hour he totally >> discredited >> the existing biography which he has felt necessary to replace by his own >> book. He emphasised that Maturin and O'Brian are the same person but he >> couldnt find a particular model for Aubrey other than an eccentric >> Welshman. >> He was very revealing about Patrick O'Brian's early life. Patrick didnt >> have >> an easy time of it but was not as wicked as he has been painted. As to >> Nikolai Tolstoy I have always had a great respect for him since I read >> his >> book on Merlin which had some remarkably original ideas. >> >> Tomorrow I have Karen Armstrong, all of whose books I love, and Richard >> Fortey for some education. >> >> >> >> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England .... >> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com >> >> -- >> This email has been verified as Virus free >> Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net >> > > -- > This email has been verified as Virus free > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net >