Niall O'Sullivan is a poet, editor and event host. He has published two books of poetry with Flipped Eye and hosts London's biggest open mic, Poetry Unplugged, at the Poetry Cafe.
Archive for September, 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins: review
Sometimes I find myself muting my praise for Richard Dawkins. In the Guardian-reading, liberal, accommodating, live-and-let-live atmosphere of the London literary scene, standing up and telling whole groups of people that they’re wrong about things seems terribly improper. Most of the poets and writers I run into these days are atheists and agnostics, but they [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2009 under Cul-cha!, Here Comes the Science.
Tags: creationism, evolution, Richard Dawkins
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Stop the Press! Fossils found 18 years ago!
Richard Dawkins coined a fantastic phrase in The Ancestor’s Tale: the discontinuous mind. The discontinuous mind is a kind of binary way of viewing the world, the non-realisation that many boundaries and watersheds exist for legal and bureaucratic convenience, they do not really reflect a substantial change in the real world. The discontinuous mind believes [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2009 under Here Comes the Science.
Tags: evolution, palaeoanthropology
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