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We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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- second rate biologist with a god complex
And he seems to be mixing up my idea of GOD with something that created the universe in 6 days. Which is a bit presumptuous to say the least

Anyway back to Books. If it wasn't for Paley's Natural Theology and other works, it's pretty unlikely that Darwin wouldn't have written the origin of species which Dawkins has pretty much built his career in pop science on
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(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 14:36, 1 reply)
^ never read a single Dawkins book ^

(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 14:37, closed)
I've read a few of his.
He still comes across as a pompous, arrogant arse I'm afraid, despite the fact I agree with what he says.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 15:47, closed)
Care to give some examples of arrogance?
It's an easy label to throw at somebody writing pop science books about a subject they care deeply about. It's rarely backed up with anything though.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 17:13, closed)
Surely the whole point of an ad hominem attack
is that you don't back it up with anything, you just stamp your feet and cry about the nasty man
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 16:10, closed)
Good point.
Silly ol' me.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:00, closed)

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