Science in the Soul

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.For decades, Richard Dawkins has been a brilliant scientific communicator, consistently illuminating the wonders of nature and attacking faulty logic Science in the Soul brings together forty two essays, polemics, and paeans all written with Dawkins s characteristic erudition, remorseless wit, and unjaded awe of the natural world.Though it spans three decades, this book couldn t be timely or urgent Elected officials have opened the floodgates to prejudices that have for half a century been unacceptable or at least undercover In a passionate introduction, Dawkins calls on us to insist that reason take center stage and that gut feelings, even when they don t represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia, misogyny, or other blind prejudice, should stay out of the voting booth And in the essays themselves, newly annotated by the author, he investigates a number of issues, including the importance of empirical evidence, and decries bad science, religion in the schools, and climate change deniers.Dawkins has equal ardor for the sacred truth of nature and renders here with typical virtuosity the glories and complexities of the natural world Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time, for instance, is the peculiar history of the giant tortoises and the sea turtles whose journeys between water and land tell us a deeper story about evolution At this moment, when so many highly placed people still question the fact of evolution, Dawkins asks what Darwin would make of his own legacy a mixture of exhilaration and exasperation and celebrates science as possessing many of religion s virtues explanation, consolation, and uplift without its detriments of superstition and prejudice.In a world grown irrational and hostile to facts, Science in the Soul is an essential collection by an indispensable author.Praise for Science in the Soul Compelling rendered in gloriously spiky and opinionated prose Dawkins is one of the great science popularizers of the last half century The Christian Science Monitor Dawkins is a ferocious polemicist, a defender of reason and enemy of superstition John Horgan, Scientific American Download Science in the Soul – kino-fada.fr Richard Dawkins is not a regular writer, for in all of his writings you feel his excitement and passion for the subjects he s talking about,so when you listen to him speak about it as I did with the audiobook version He delivers that with rare astonishing clarity that makes you understand what he meant exactly, and sometimes he goes out of his way to clarify what he meant precisely just to prevent misunderstanding Unlike in the heated debates many people know him from, Dawkins in his boo Richard Dawkins is not a regular writer, for in all of his writings you feel his excitement and pa...I ve now read all of Dawkins books again This is his second essay collection, and for most people I think 4 or 5 stars would be appropriate because of what an original and witty writer he is, effortlessly explaining science That said, a lot of this is naturally repetitive for someone fluent in his ...A small raft is drifting in the middle of the ocean On it a disheveled figure is thirsty and hungry under the unforgiving heat of the sun Four equally disheveled chickens, cramped together at the opposing end of the raft are gawking at him suspiciously with bloodshot eyes A horse comes up from the basement of the raft with a bottle of wine tucked under his arm Do you guys But then he notices the static tension in the air, the accusing looks of the chickens and slowly, quietly, backs awa A small raft is drifting in the middle of the ocean On it a disheveled figure is thirsty and hungry under the unforgiving heat of the sun Four equally disheveled chickens, cramped together at the opposing end of the raft are gawking at him suspiciously with bloodshot eyes A horse comes up from the basement of the raft with a bottle of wine tucked under his arm Do you guys But then he notices the static tension in the air, the accusing looks of the chickens and slowly, quietly, backs away back in the basement So have you heard about the four horsemen of apocalypse He starts with a high pitched voice Startled, the chickens jump and try to group evenin an amorphous mass He was a creationist and believed in the nobility of the soul the chickens were pragmatic, turned from fearsome dinosaurs to defenseless flightless birds, if the horse was going to tempt Him long enough with that bottle of wine He might fall for a meal too You fed thousands of people with a few fishes, why w...This is the second such collection of Richard s essays and speeches, some of them going back a couple decades I listened to the audiobook which was narrated by Richard and his ex wife Lalla Ward The content is grouped by subject matter in to eight different sections in the book with each section introduced by editor Gillian Somerscales Each chapter contains a separate essay speech Richard provides an afterword to a number of the chapters with updated information or a comment about how he c This i...Science in the Soul Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist written by Richard Dawkins is a collections of essays he delivered over the last three decades Some of the essays are accompanied by the afterthought written by the author himself on what his current view on the subject is and how he would have written the essays differently.There are many subjects that this book covers ranging from rationalism, skepticism, evolution, human, etc., but there are two ideas that are new, or rath Science in the Soul Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist written by Richard Dawkins is a collections of essays he delivered over the last three decades Some of the essays are accompanied by the afterthought written by the author himself on what his current view on the subject is and how he would have written the essays differently.There are many subjects that this book covers ranging from rationalism, skepticism, evolution, human, etc., but there are two ideas that are new, or rather memorable, to me.The first one is that we human have a strong urge to thank something when a child who was presumed dead was later found to be alive after flood We think that some deity is the reason behind the flood and the child being alive Like what I learn from The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer, our brain is trying to connec...This latest collection of essays is just a pleasure to read and contains some favorites that you will know along with several speeches and articles that have not been made available in the US until now Dawkins is always a very engaging and passionate writer with the scientific credentials to back up his claims In this collection the focus ison the poetry and beauty of scientific thought and the need for rationalism pertaining to numerous areas of inquiry The most heartfelt are the closi This latest collection of essays is just a pleasure to read and contains some favorites that you will know along with several speeches and articles that have not been made available in the US until now Dawkins is always a ve...Richard Dawkins writing inspires and encourages me to write Haha, only and if I could start Okay, let me try here This book is terrific, and a must read I especially loved his memoirs, and even , admired him for writing and including them in this book He remembers all those nostalgic details so well and pours them beautifully into words I thought this book would be mostly a revision for us who have read his books, but it de...Reading this book was a joy.Whether one is an atheist, like Richard Dawkins, or not, whether one rejects the idea that a God exists and people lack souls, as Dawkins thinks, and even if one disagrees with him when he contends that a religious faith is a delusion, it is still worth the time spent to read his books Dawkins born 1941 was voted the world s top thinker over the past hundred ...I adore Dawkins and probably read all of his major works And for this reason I must say, I think this book is just for fans and people very well familiar with Dawkins life work It is a good collection, but if you haven t read all of his books, anything else probably would be a better inv...

• 03 June 2018
Richard Dawkins
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