觀讀聽 10/2/08

觀：

● Francois Truffaut 《The Adventures of Antoine Doinel》 (8/10)
--- 曾堯角落：Antoine Doinel人生路 ---

● Bertrand Blier 《How much do you love me?/Combien tu m'aimes?》 (4/10)

讀：

● Richard Dawkins 《The God Delusion》

An Atheist's Call to Arms:


The Root of All Evil? Part 1: The God Delusion

The Root of All Evil? Part 2: The Virus of Faith


Richard Dawkins - Multimedia

● 龐彥　《我是你的影子》

● 龐彥　《餘音裊裊》

--- 一缕泥香 - 庞彦 ---

--- 奇女子庞彦:收藏皮影6000件 ---

I love this news headline!

God, Darwin clash again in Kansas

as if they are rival gang leaders.

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More on this topic:
- A creationist takes a place in the world of fossils (Cornelia Dean, IHT, 12/2/07 - originally published in NYT)
- Weird Science (Michael Weiss, Slate, 13/2/07)

Who really is the flock of dodos?

(Original: 21/2/06)

The evolutionists? The intelligent design advocates?

Let scientist and filmmaker Randy Olson guides your through the debate in his new film: Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus.

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Wikipedia has these to say about the now extinct bird Dodo: The Dodo was entirely fearless of people, and this, in combination with its flightlessness, made it easy prey. The name dodo comes from the archaic Portuguese word doudo, meaning "simpleton", doido in modern Portuguese meaning fool or mad. ... No one took particular notice of the extinct bird, until it was featured in the Caucus race in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). With the popularity of the book, the Dodo became a household word: "as dead as a Dodo."

(Updated: 20/1/07)

"Photos" of Dodo (The New Yorker, 22/1/07)

A Mission to Convert

Scientists' interest in religion seems to come in waves. One arrived after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Another followed in the 1930s and 1940s, inspired by surprising revelations from quantum mechanics, which suggested the insufficiency of conventional physical theories of the universe. And now scientists are once again writing about religion, apparently provoked this time by the controversy surrounding intelligent design. (H. Allen Orr, A Mission to Convert, New York Review of Books, Vol.54 No.1)



More Orr:
● Other Orr articles in New York Review of Books
● No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence (Boston Review)
● Darwin v. Intelligent Design (Again) (Boston Review)
● Devolution: Why intelligent design isn’t (The New Yorker)

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Intelligent Design from Wikipedia