Richard Dawkins "bashing orthodoxy"
Today this article was brought to my attention thanks to Hacker News. I don't tend to get too involved with the discussions anywhere on the Internet these days, but I guess I did today. Here was my response:
I'm not a Christian, Muslim or Jew. I don't believe in God. I find it slightly unnerving that there's still religious fundamentalists out there that flatly refuse to accept scientific evidence of evolution and more, and yet...
I can't stand Richard Dawkins.
I know that there's some dangerous ideas put out there by fundamentalists, but for the most part, if they stick to themselves and are generally good people who don't interfere with others then I don't really care what they believe.
Not necessarily this article, but generally, and especially listening to him talk live (radio, conferences etc) Richard Dawkins is arrogant and pig headed. It's kind of ironic that by dedicating his life to setting them straight, Dawkins has become as much of a fundamentalist evangelist as the religious fundamentalists he spends his time mocking.
This is an interesting YouTube video that someone posted in the Hacker News thread that sparked my post. I think speaks volumes.
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