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Dawkins deserves a great deal of responsibility for my final leap to Secular Humanistic Judaism.\u00a0 One of the last things that held me back was my terrible understanding of evolution.\u00a0 I really just could not understand how a supposedly random process (it\u2019s not random) could result in intelligent life.\u00a0 I was also misled by ridiculous interpretations of evolution offered by writers like Arthur Green in his Radical Judaism<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I read Dawkins\u2019 The Greatest Show on Earth<\/i><\/a>, my eyes were finally opened to the real story.\u00a0 The walls of my ignorance crumbled.\u00a0 I have since read many more of his books and plenty of others on biological evolution, physics and related topics.<\/p>\n

Dawkins has now published The Magic of Reality<\/i><\/a>, aimed at children but appropriate for all ages.\u00a0 It is fully and beautifully illustrated by the famed graphic novel artist Dave McKean (famous for his partnership with Neil Gaiman).<\/p>\n

The talk was excellent.\u00a0 Dawkins was preceded by Sean Faircloth, formerly of the Secular Coalition for America and now with the Richard Dawkins Foundation.\u00a0 He, too, has a new book coming out that looks quite good, Attack of the Theocrats<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

All in all it was a fantastic way to enjoy my holiday free time after two great services at Congregation Beth Adam in Boca Raton.<\/p>\n

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