205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Poetic Inspiration of Science
i subscribe to what i call the karlsagan school of science, where you try to inspire with the poetry of science. There's nothing wrong with being useful, of course, and science is immensely useful, but that's not all it is. And i think the poetic inspiration of since is something which we need to get across. I still get the feeling that there's this transcendental temptation, even among a lot of scientists, that there's something else besides the stuff.
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