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To: NYer
Yessir....

I can just picture children begging their parents to read them
"a children's book on how to think about the world, science thinking contrasted with mythical thinking"
at bedtime.

25 posted on 10/28/2008 11:10:40 AM PDT by norton
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To: norton

“Mummy, let’s read the fun book again, the one about scientific realism and the death of all childhood imagination that will prepare me for the life as a chartered accountant!”


28 posted on 10/28/2008 11:38:06 AM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: norton
I can just picture children begging their parents to read them "a children's book on how to think about the world, science thinking contrasted with mythical thinking" at bedtime.

Actually, something along these lines already exists called "Junior Skeptic".

http://www.skeptic.com/junior_skeptic

50 posted on 10/30/2008 2:24:31 PM PDT by rosenfan
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To: norton

Somehow I suspect Dawkins didn’t have many friends as a child.


51 posted on 11/02/2008 6:36:00 AM PST by Soothesayer (I'm breaking out of this hand basket!)
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