Saturday, August 01, 2009

Friends Don't Let Friends ...

... review each other's books.

Or do they? In this case, it works out very nicely, with Joel Achenbach reviewing Bob Wright's latest, The Evolution of God.

Regular watchers of Bloggingheads.tv will already know something of the relationship these two have, and it works well on camera, too. Joel's got their latest diavlog embedded at the bottom of his post; earlier ones are here. The earliest one, posted 27 May 2006, is well worth watching just for Joel's "taxonomy of global-warming skeptics." It also features some early-days ball-busting from Joel about what turned out to be this exact book.

(h/t: graz)

2 comments:

Glenn said...

His "Autobiograpy of God". Ha ha ha.

John Evo said...

Haven't read Bob's latest, but have to agree with what Joel said to him on bh.tv about getting "spooky" and that he need not have taken his hypothesis to the unnecessary level of the supernatural.

The first time I became aware of Bob, I saw a video of him interviewing Dan Dennett, with Dan calling him "a bit of a mysterian". LOL! I've never forgotten that.

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