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 Mysterious Universe
i feel that scientists ought to do more to try to write in a way that's accessible to other people. We scientists would actually understand ourselves better if we wret p as if alat audience, it's hard to do. So le me, let me just giveo, i'll read some passages from the book to give your voice break here. You open with the literature of science. I love the first one you have, from sir james jean is 19 30. The mysterious universe. Our first impression is something akin to terror. But above all else, we find the universe terrifying because it appears to be indifferent to life like our own. Emotion, ambition and achievement,
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