Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 20, 2021, 03:55:38 PM
Dawkins has had his humanist award revoked 15 years after the fact. Could have told them years ago that he was in fact a dick.

From my limited knowledge of him, I found him an interesting and intelligent fella. What has he done that you're not a fan of?

We went through all this *checks notes* 130 pages back man!  :-X

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 29, 2020, 01:43:18 PM
I'll let him lay it out for you himself:
https://www.richarddawkins.net/2014/07/response-to-a-bizarre-twitter-storm/

If you can find a shred of genuine intelligence in there, let alone - god forbid - wisdom, please scrub the shit off it and present it to us, because I'm at a loss.

Atheism is only another form of belief anyway so I always took him with a pinch of salt. That twitter thing he got into was regrettable and distracts from any possibly salient points he may have to make regarding humanity and religion. Then again I hadn't heard of him in years before he acted the maggot last year

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 20, 2021, 04:12:32 PM
We went through all this *checks notes* 130 pages back man!  :-X

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 29, 2020, 01:43:18 PM
I'll let him lay it out for you himself:
https://www.richarddawkins.net/2014/07/response-to-a-bizarre-twitter-storm/

If you can find a shred of genuine intelligence in there, let alone - god forbid - wisdom, please scrub the shit off it and present it to us, because I'm at a loss.

Ah yes I think I remember that business.

For an atheist he tends to get really worked up about religion as well.

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 20, 2021, 04:12:32 PM
We went through all this *checks notes* 130 pages back man!  :-X

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 29, 2020, 01:43:18 PM
I'll let him lay it out for you himself:
https://www.richarddawkins.net/2014/07/response-to-a-bizarre-twitter-storm/

If you can find a shred of genuine intelligence in there, let alone - god forbid - wisdom, please scrub the shit off it and present it to us, because I'm at a loss.

The tweets aren't visible there but I can glean what it's about and ya, I wouldn't be able to condone what he's getting at.

The Simpsons parodied Morrissey and he's whinging about it. Another fuckin blouse of a fella.

He's lucky nobody cared about the Simpsons in 20 years.... until now.

Dawkins's points about religion and Islam are grand,  take them or leave them, but he should stick to what he excels at, namely evolutionary biology. His pointless twitter posts don't detract from the excellence of Climbing Mount Improbable, which is the only book of his I've as yet read. Nothing explosive in it at all unless you are a creationist.

Evolution is God's way of refining her work and has worked perfectly well for 6000 years

Quote from: astfgyl on April 20, 2021, 04:20:20 PM
Atheism is only another form of belief anyway so I always took him with a pinch of salt. That twitter thing he got into was regrettable and distracts from any possibly salient points he may have to make regarding humanity and religion. Then again I hadn't heard of him in years before he acted the maggot last year

I think he wanted a church of atheism with him as pope.

JewTube CEO Susan Wojcicki giving herself the Freedom Of Expression award is akin to Gerry & Kate McCann giving themselves the Parents of the Year award....


https://youtu.be/xDcvPf78g1k

The like to dislike ratio on that is very satisfying.

Quote from: hellfire on April 20, 2021, 06:15:11 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on April 20, 2021, 04:20:20 PM
Atheism is only another form of belief anyway so I always took him with a pinch of salt. That twitter thing he got into was regrettable and distracts from any possibly salient points he may have to make regarding humanity and religion. Then again I hadn't heard of him in years before he acted the maggot last year

I think he wanted a church of atheism with him as pope.

Please let that be real

Quote from: Bigmac on April 20, 2021, 08:28:43 PM
The like to dislike ratio on that is very satisfying.
Especially since JewTube seem to 'monitor' that themselves quite well too....

Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 20, 2021, 05:45:32 PM
Dawkins's points about religion and Islam are grand,  take them or leave them, but he should stick to what he excels at, namely evolutionary biology. His pointless twitter posts don't detract from the excellence of Climbing Mount Improbable, which is the only book of his I've as yet read. Nothing explosive in it at all unless you are a creationist.

Agreed. His books are outstanding, I've read them all several times and will read them again, every time you read them you find something new to blow your mind. He has a grand flow to his writing and a great way of explaining very complex subject matter.