It is time to move away from anti-religious sentiment/philosophy and instead appeal to the logic of those who refute the the­ory of evo­lu­tion. This appears to be the premise of Richard Dawkins’ lat­est book, The Great­est Show on Earth, where he “traces the sci­en­tific inves­ti­ga­tion of bio­log­i­cal change as if it were a crime-scene inves­ti­ga­tion — build­ing up what he con­sid­ers an iron­clad case for evo­lu­tion in action”.

That quote comes from a recent Cos­mic Log arti­cle in which Alan Boyle looks at and reca­pit­u­lates Dawkins’ evolv­ing phi­los­o­phy before pre­sent­ing a wide-ranging (and often amus­ing) inter­view.

From that arti­cle, here are Richard Dawkins’ four favourite mys­ter­ies that still need to be solved:

  • The ori­gin of life.
  • The ori­gin of sex.
  • The ori­gin of consciousness.
  • The rise of morality.

Thanks, Alex