Tas Walker on March 29th, 2010

Anyone who publishes a rebuttal to any of Dawkins’ books will be branded as a flea. From his own site:
Many “parasitic” authors have released books which use Richard’s name or titles to sell their own books …
So any critique is dismissed as “parasitic”.
The latest book given that status is Jonathan Sarfati’s The [...]

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Tas Walker on March 13th, 2010

It is two and a half months since the tetrapod tracks found in Poland have upturned the neat fish-to-tetrapod transition that has been so popular for promoting evolution. This morning, there was still no word on the Wikipedia entry for Panderichthys so I added the following to “Include tetrapod tracks found in Poland and implications”.
In [...]

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Tas Walker on March 9th, 2010

I wrote a note to a couple of the politicians who appeared on last night’s Q and A.
I saw you on Q & A last night and I appreciate the way you tried to stand up to Dawkins’ attacks on the Christian faith.
I thought it was interesting that not one person on the panel could [...]

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Tas Walker on March 9th, 2010

Perhaps there is a journalist in Australia who is brave enough to ask it.
Why won’t he debate creationists?
If he is so sure of his science as he continually says, and creationists are so ignorant and ill informed, then why not have it out once for all? Even some of his fans from his web [...]

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Tas Walker on March 8th, 2010

I’ve previously mentioned how the media give Richard Dawkins a dream run, never questioning or probing his assertions about evolution. They just lap it up. Seems like ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) is falling in line with the long tradition—making sure that the champion fighter against ignorance and creationism is not asked any difficult questions on [...]

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Tas Walker on March 7th, 2010

At last there is a debate. At last the cards have been put on the table. That’s the really fantastic thing about Richard Dawkins latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. He is actually discussing evidence.
Which is why Dr Jonathan Sarfati jumped at the opportunity. In his book, The Greatest Hoax [...]

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Tas Walker on March 7th, 2010

The Australian media is portraying Richard Dawkins during his visit ‘down under’ as taking on the creationists.
Journalist Danika Armytage described it in her video report of 5 March 2010 like this:
“Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins is in Sydney this weekend to promote his new book ‘The Greatest Show on Earth‘. It’s an uncompromising [...]

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