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Here is a link to Dawkins’ new foundation. Here is a quote from a presentation on the site:

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity. But it must be a positive attack, for science and reason have so much to give. They are not just useful, they enrich our lives in the same kind of way as the arts do. Promoting science as poetry was one of the things that Carl Sagan did so well, and I aspire to continue his tradition.

Somebody asked me who Richard Dawkins was after my last post, uhhh just the most brilliant communicator of science of all time dumbass!!! Anyway my vote for Greatest Book Ever Written is Richard Dawkins‘ The Ancestor’s Tale, which I think should be required reading for all living beings. Go buy it and read it.

Of course you can’t go wrong reading anything else he’s ever written–some of the more well-known books like The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion are also superb.

Gives me hope that we’re not all doomed to an existence defined by Fox News, George W. Bush AKA the King of Jesusland and that retard from Iran (who the not-quite-but-almost-as-retarded Glenn Beck calls President Tom, which is funny on several levels) …

I noticed today that David Deutsch has some lectures posted on QM/QC, and since he’s the closest thing to Richard Dawkins that QM/QC has, I’ve provided a link to them here and in the widget bar. Beautiful stuff…definitely worth taking a look at it you’re interested in what QM really tells us about the world.