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03 Apr 2005 04:15:56 AM |
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In the News: You wont fool the children of the evolution |
From the article:
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By Barry Didcock
ARRIVING ahead of time for my audience with Professor Richard Dawkins, I
loiter on the doorstep of his palatial Oxford home. Then I think: such a
famous champion of Darwin: hasn’t he spent too many decades studying the
slow sweep of the evolutionary hour hand to worry about seven solitary
minutes? So I ring the doorbell and wait.
“You’re early,” he sniffs accusingly when the door finally swings open.
He’s right. It’s still only 2:23pm and I’m not due to cross the threshold
until half past, another 420 seconds. But just as I think he might count
them down before letting me in, Dawkins ushers me into a huge open-plan
living room. As if to make his point, though, he removes himself to another
room and has me wait just a little bit longer.
I use the time to look around. This isn’t quite the temple to evolutionary
biology I’d imagined. There are bookcases, certainly, but the authors and
books that catch my eye – Douglas Adams, Len Deighton, Alan Bullock’s
Hitler And Stalin – aren’t the ones I was expecting.
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Read it at http://www.sundayherald.com/48727
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Harlequin" |
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| Title: Re: In the News: You wont fool the children of the evolution |
03 Apr 2005 11:06:41 AM |
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in
news:Xns962D3595E979Enotreallyjspacemanho@216.196.97.142:
A passage of the author Jason quotes:
I use the time to look around. This isn't quite the temple to
evolutionary biology I'd imagined. There are bookcases, certainly, but
the authors and books that catch my eye - Douglas Adams, Len Deighton,
Alan Bullock's Hitler And Stalin - aren't the ones I was expecting.
I _would_ expect Douglas Adams books. After if one has read some
of Dawkins more recent stuff will know that Dawkins is a fan. And
Dawkins helped narrate an Adams book for an audio production.
Not to mention that literate people do tend to read. If all
he ever read was technical and scientific literature and/or
popularizatins of them then it is doubtful that he would have
been able to write so well. It is common for writers, especially
good writers, to mention that writers do need to read broadly.
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| Title: Re: In the News: You wont fool the children of the evolution |
03 Apr 2005 11:40:50 AM |
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"Harlequin" <usenet@sdc.cox.net> wrote in message
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in
news:Xns962D3595E979Enotreallyjspacemanho@216.196.97.142:
A passage of the author Jason quotes:
I use the time to look around. This isn't quite the temple to
evolutionary biology I'd imagined. There are bookcases, certainly, but
the authors and books that catch my eye - Douglas Adams, Len Deighton,
Alan Bullock's Hitler And Stalin - aren't the ones I was expecting.
I _would_ expect Douglas Adams books. After if one has read some
of Dawkins more recent stuff will know that Dawkins is a fan. And
Dawkins helped narrate an Adams book for an audio production.
And I believe he also met his wife through Adams (if not, there's certainly
a connection with Adams' Doctor Who days)
Danny
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| User: "Harlequin" |
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03 Apr 2005 12:11:28 PM |
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"Danny Kodicek" <usenet@well-spring.co.uk> wrote in
news:m0V3e.4298$vv2.629@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net:
"Harlequin" <usenet@sdc.cox.net> wrote in message
news:Xns962D7115D4290usenet123mmcablecom@68.12.19.6...
Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in
news:Xns962D3595E979Enotreallyjspacemanho@216.196.97.142:
A passage of the author Jason quotes:
I use the time to look around. This isn't quite the temple to
evolutionary biology I'd imagined. There are bookcases, certainly,
but the authors and books that catch my eye - Douglas Adams, Len
Deighton, Alan Bullock's Hitler And Stalin - aren't the ones I was
expecting.
I _would_ expect Douglas Adams books. After if one has read some
of Dawkins more recent stuff will know that Dawkins is a fan. And
Dawkins helped narrate an Adams book for an audio production.
And I believe he also met his wife through Adams (if not, there's
certainly a connection with Adams' Doctor Who days)
I forgot about that. I don't know if Adams introduced him to his
wife, but that his wife was an actor on _Doctor Who_ and Adams
was a writer on the show certainly is suggestive to a connection.
I guess it all depends on how well connected the cast of the
show was to the writers. I have gotten the impression that for
some (but certainly not all) shows in the U.S. at least, once
the script is turned in they don't want anything to do with the
writer. Of course the Doctor was British (or at least a Gallifreyan
played by British actor) and not American.
Come to think of it, I think I have read that somewhere.
[Searches Google search.] Yes, Adams did introduce Dawkins to his
wife at Adam's 40th birthday party.
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03 Apr 2005 09:04:13 PM |
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Harlequin wrote:
"Danny Kodicek" <usenet@well-spring.co.uk> wrote in
news:m0V3e.4298$vv2.629@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net:
"Harlequin" <usenet@sdc.cox.net> wrote in message
news:Xns962D7115D4290usenet123mmcablecom@68.12.19.6...
Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in
news:Xns962D3595E979Enotreallyjspacemanho@216.196.97.142:
A passage of the author Jason quotes:
I use the time to look around. This isn't quite the temple to
evolutionary biology I'd imagined. There are bookcases,
certainly,
but the authors and books that catch my eye - Douglas Adams, Len
Deighton, Alan Bullock's Hitler And Stalin - aren't the ones I
was
expecting.
I _would_ expect Douglas Adams books. After if one has read some
of Dawkins more recent stuff will know that Dawkins is a fan. And
Dawkins helped narrate an Adams book for an audio production.
And I believe he also met his wife through Adams (if not, there's
certainly a connection with Adams' Doctor Who days)
I forgot about that. I don't know if Adams introduced him to his
wife, but that his wife was an actor on _Doctor Who_ and Adams
was a writer on the show certainly is suggestive to a connection.
I guess it all depends on how well connected the cast of the
show was to the writers. I have gotten the impression that for
some (but certainly not all) shows in the U.S. at least, once
the script is turned in they don't want anything to do with the
writer. Of course the Doctor was British (or at least a Gallifreyan
played by British actor) and not American.
Come to think of it, I think I have read that somewhere.
[Searches Google search.] Yes, Adams did introduce Dawkins to his
wife at Adam's 40th birthday party.
IIRC, Adams was "script editor" - the producer's pet script doctor, if
you want to look at it that way.
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