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To: jalisco555
You know, I actually agree with him on the science but still find him a patronizing, condescending nitwit. I downloaded his latest book, The God Delusion, from Audible and was ready to throw my Ipod at the wall after listening to a few chapters (he and his wife are the readers). Just listening to his insufferable sense of his own unassailable superiority, which comes through every page of the book, would turn any atheist into a Creationist.

So you agree with him but his style is so infuriating at least in audio
The big shots at Microsoft encouraged and sponsored Dawkins
Dawkin's professorship is endowed by Charles Simonyi who is ex-Microsoft

The Current Simonyi Professor: Richard Dawkins

Professor Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. ...
www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/ - 8k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

94 posted on 10/08/2007 4:48:52 PM PDT by dennisw (France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Nicholas Sarkozy)
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To: dennisw
So you agree with him but his style is so infuriating at least in audio

I agree with him that the scientific evidence supporting evolution by natural selection is overwhelming. I certainly don't agree with him about the substance of this article. The article just reinforces my view that Dawkins is an obnoxious jerk. As for the professorship endowed by the Microsoft guy, well, my only response is to say that I'm glad I'm a Machead :-)

103 posted on 10/09/2007 4:55:31 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." Winston Churchill)
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