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If Dawkins is squandering his talents arguing with idiots, he's doing a remarkably effective job of it.

The part on love and how Richard Dawkins can be considered a Type-0 genius but a Type-1-and-higher retard was also quite fascinating.

Well, Dawkins doesn't believe in brainwashing defenseless children to believe things without testable basis.

A bit, but I definitely remember Dawkins arguing for a simple test of this in evolutionary biology.

Hamilton), what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name.

I've always liked that book quite a lot, but Dawkins did not present (and did not claim to present) a theory of abiogenesis.

He almost made Dawkins look like a bible thumper.

The following night Richard Dawkins and I appeared on Channel 4 News to talk about the petition (Dawkins was filmed looking regal in his garden; I was filmed in classic programmer clothing: bad shoes, dirty shorts and a crumpled shirt).

I see the Dawkins Foundation was mentioned, a lot of times they criticize and attack religions when they could have used the resources to help out people in the community instead.

There are some wonderful parts of The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker, but one of my favourites was him taking the piss out of Richard Dawkins for thinking Saddam Hussein was uniquely and especially evil, worthy of individual study.

If you're truly serious about science as I think you want to be, you might also want to revise that list of yours, as it suggests less of an interest in science itself, and more of scientism and naturalism which are both circular philosophies in the pop-science Dawkins crusade.

Richard Dawkins (writing in the 2010 Penguin Classics reissue) claimed the novel was "one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written."

'folli never claimed it was Dawkins’ idea;-) ”what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name” Well, he also wrote an accessible book on the subject.

The "Swedish Dawkins/Russel" was the philosophy professor Ingemar Hedenius in the 1950s.

Dawkins does try to educate people, in fact from his book output he mostly tries to educate people - see for example "the greatest show on earth".

Dawkins speaks as if being a Catholic is equivalent to being dead.

The conversation here is interesting in spots, even if Dawkins' own knee-jerk reactions to religion are tiresome.

Be that as it might, that is not Dawkins' idea (i believe the foremost thinker in that regard is W.