Posted on 07/18/2008 7:56:20 PM PDT by Soliton
Richard Dawkins is that rare specimen, a public intellectual, a knight of the mind who goes into battle against the ignorance and foolhardiness of the populace. Unlike the French, who worship their public intellectuals, giving them pet names such as les intellos, and airing them regularly on serious television and in print, the British like to shove academics into a musty corner, or laugh at them. This was not always the case: the Victorians, with their public lectures and royal societies, gloried in debate and celebrated the thrills of fresh knowledge. The nearest we get to this now is celebrating the thrill of Germaine Greer walking out of Celebrity Big Brother.
(Excerpt) Read more at entertainment.timesonline.co.uk ...
Ich trinka lemonada gern! Spiels du foosball?
You’re mixing your metaphors when you say ‘attention queen’.
It is either ‘attention whore’ or ‘drama queen’.
Unless now we have a new combining of the two, but I think that ‘attention whore queen’ or drama queen whore’ would be more accurate.
Not ripping ya, just havin fun.... :)
Isn't he the guy who used to host Family Feud?
It’s an apt mixed metaphor.
El Primo puff job.
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Whose balls you trick?
Say what you will, that’s an impressive resume.
Just because the groupy is dumb doesn’t make the rock star stupid.
Man what a sop... Could she have gushed any worse. This is truly a lesson in unprofessional sycophancy.
You are wrong as is your want. Sleep tight this full moon my little cleric bashing friend.
I know that science is a stranger to your “intellectual” pursuits and your cut-n-paste antics make your mother proud.
Dawkins maybe an a**hole, but he is a brilliant a**hole who created a whole new field of study.
Sleep quietly little friend. Good night!
You really are.
Too true. I have read and read Dawkins' work. He is brilliant, but this article is an embarrassment.
He's a guy who supports the desecration of what Catholics hold to be sacred:
PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS.By the way, Julian Huxley (founder of Unesco, president of the Eugenics Society, raving atheist, etc.) was a friend of the Dawkins family. Huxley was Konrad Lorenz's mentor -- Lorenz was the colleague of the guy under which Dawkins got his Ph.D. Worst of all, Richard is not his first name. His first name is Clinton.
By Richard DawkinsReaders of yesterday's thread "It's a Goddamned Cracker" will be aware of somebody called Bill Donohue, whose grasp of reality is so poor that he can't tell the difference between a wafer and Jesus. The shrieking hysteria of Donohue and other Roman Catholics over the temporary removal of a communion wafer from a church service epitomises all that is ridiculous in the religious mind.
Today's development is that Donohue is now inciting a witch-hunt against PZ, and is trying to whip up Roman Catholics to write to the President of the University of Minnesota, urging him to sack PZ. We need a massive counter flood of letters in support of PZ Myers. Please write, bearing in mind PZ's two requests:-
1. Please use your own name, not a pseudonym 2. Please take care to write in a good, literate, adult style, in order to increase the contrast between the letters of support and the incoherent, juvenile flaming that will doubtless characterise the letters from the Catholics.
For details of the address to write to, see Pharyngula, here (or PZ's post below) http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/fight_back_against_bill_donohu.php
Please rally round and show support for PZ, in the face of this hysterical latter-day Grand Inquisitor.
Thank you
Richard
I suspect him of being proto-autistic. He has a brilliant mind but an insensitivity to human emotion.
I am that I am
This Dawkins guy is real juvenile! He laces his own post with heavy doses of insults while urging his lackeys and sycophants to write in an adult style. What a joke. Who would take this guy seriously?
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