CFI Canada Toronto Branch welcomes JERRY COYNE University of Chicago evolutionary geneticist on Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30 pm at the OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St W to present his new book Tickets are now available through Eventbrite. There will be a book signing after the lecture and an after-event social gathering at a nearby… Read more »
CFI Canada Toronto Branch eagerly awaits Jerry Coyne’s appearance in Toronto. On Wednesday, June 10th at 7:30 pm, Coyne will present on his new book, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible, due to be released in Canada by Penguin Random House on May 19th. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry… Read more »
When I was a child I liked to browse the bookshelves in the family home. I knew that many of the books were “for adults”, meaning that they were likely to be prolix, pointlessly obscure, and perversely devoid of any discussion of dinosaurs, spaceships, minotaurs, swordfights and other interesting things, but I still enjoyed reading… Read more »
On November 21, Kate Taylor introduced Globe and Mail readers to a different kind of book club: Book Clubs for Inmates. Book Clubs for Inmates was started in 2009 by Carol Finlay, a retired Anglican priest and English teacher, at Collins Bay Institution, in Kingston Ontario: “I went into Collins Bay. … I thought I… Read more »
Does anyone care whether Jesus was married with children? York U professor Barrie Wilson and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici care; they wrote the book, The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Sacred Text that Reveals Jesus’ Marriage to Mary Magdalene. Not everyone is a believer convinced by Wilson and Jacobovici’s theisis. Mark Goodacre and Robert Cargill are… Read more »
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is the source of the phrase “an albatross around one’s neck,” a metaphor for an encumbrance or a burden. Jerry Coyne used The Albatross as a working title for a book he was writing. It is no longer necessary for Coyne or readers of… Read more »