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Saw Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers Fest­ival

with John and oth­ers (which was very very poorly planned, I could not go to either of the Ross Gittins talks because the seats filled up hours before they were sched­uled to start).

Nor­mally when he’s inter­view­ing people he comes across as very stiff and severe, but he’s actu­ally very affable and funny.

The whole thing was presen­ted as a con­ver­sa­tion between Dawkins and someone I can’t remem­ber the name of. They ran through some of his argu­ments in The God Delu­sion, and debunked some of the books that were writ­ten in response.

The whole thing was a bit of an intel­lec­tual circle-jerk though; it was a paid event, so it was preach­ing to the con­ver­ted (irony!). I doubt there were any reli­gious people in the audi­ence who were sud­denly con­ver­ted to atheism.

By the way, this is the truth

• Boy A dvd

• Death Rattle Crys­tal Ice rip

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