See You Next Week...

I have some more original research ready, but I'm still applying the finishing touches. I hope to show it to you next week...

... in the mean-time, a couple of footnotes ...

Richard Dawkins - The Investigation Goes On

I am pleased to say that my Richard Dawkins parable has now passed 5,000 readers. It's 11th if you Google for "Dawkins" - are you sure you don't have web-sites and blogs to link it from so that it can climb that extra place onto the front page? ;-)

However, 5,000 is nothing compared to the radio spin-off. YouTube, one month on, is showing over 32,000 viewers - that's 1,000 every day since it was launched. Anonymous genius, we salute you!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QERyh9YYEis

Four and a half months of the human race's time have been spent listening to this audio clip. Frightening! To put that in perspective, it appears that in a month the You Tube clip had about 5 or 6 times as many visitors as the BCSE's entire website! (Roger Stanyard reported that the BCSE had 5,204 visitors in January - see link below. Given that some particularly egregious examples of BCSE bigotry were given a link in January from Uncommon Descent which gets nearly 6,000 daily visits... that's a pretty depressing picture for the BCSE if they're doing the maths).

http://www.bcseweb.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=737

From The Mailbag

This one just in:

Hi!

More power to your elbow, Sir!

BCSE I like to think of as "Three Men and a Website".

(Named removed)

Thank you! I appreciate these encouragements and agree with my correspondent's verdict. The core of campaigners since start-up has not grown; if anything, it has shrunk. I don't know how much the exposures from "BCSE Revealed" have played a part in this. I will probably never know. I hope it's been eye-opening to someone. But whatever's been responsible, the failure of the BCSE is becoming increasingly clear.

David Anderson



Non-anonymous factual corrections welcomed by e-mail. Comments are moderated - please read my comments policy.

Richard Dawkins - The Plot Thickens!

Readers may remember my parable, "Does Richard Dawkins Exist" ( http://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/does-richard-dawkins-exist.html). So far it's had 1,750 hits and counting.

Towards the end of January, I was sent an MP3 inspired by the parable. I told the author I thought it was brilliant, and encouraged him to publish it.

It's now out there, so here it is: Does Richard Dawkins Exist? A radio interview with Dr. Tommyrot...



Or: http://www.uncommondescent.com/audios/Dawkins_Delusion.wma (Windows Media Audio)

A number have asked - is the interviewer William Hague? I asked this question myself when I listened to the preview... the answer is, "loosely, yes".

And whilst we're on the subject, here are a couple of amusing quotes I received from the proprietor of a website devoted to G. K. Chesterton:

I liked your "parable" on Richard Dawkins! You might like to take a look at my G.K.Chesterton page. I found a couple of relevant quotes:

"The atheist told me so pompously that he did not believe there was any God; and there were moments when I did not even believe there was any atheist."
-- Autobiography

"A man wrote to say that he accepted nothing but Solipsism, and added that he had often wondered it was not a more common philosophy. Now Solipsism simply means that a man believes in his own existence, but not in anybody or anything else. And it never struck this simple sophist, that if his philosophy was true, there obviously were no other philosophers to profess it."
--St Thomas Aquinas

Meanwhile, for the right combination of words, the summit of Mount Google has now been reached...


We're not quite there for "Dawkins" yet - still languishing in the 20s... so come on, give us a link! :-)

David Anderson

Off-topic: A scientific investigation into Richard Dawkins

I haven't posted much in the last fortnight. I've been on holiday!

But I've also been working on what follows. It's not directly related to the BCSE, except in so far as we've seen that the core of the BCSE leadership is generally following the script which Richard Dawkins writes (see here and here).

Here is is:

"Does Richard Dawkins Exist? A Parable"

http://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/does-richard-dawkins-exist.html

If you like it, you can show your appreciation by linking it from any websites or blogs which you have.

David Anderson