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His views are well known. The only purpose to bringing up Dawkins' political beliefs is to smear those people who support evolutionary biology must be lilly-livered Bush-having leftists. This is a cheap tactic of guilt by association.

Guilt by association is a very dangerous game to play. The best of men have warts. I just read recently that the initial pogroms of the Jews were actually JUSTIFIED IN WRITING (Himmler) by appealing to Martin Luther's rants against the Jews. I did not believe it (Luther is one of my heroes), till I looked it up. Depressed me most of the day.

I haven't traced the thread, and I don't know about Dawkins' political views. However, I find him an arrogant, intolerant, intolerable asshole who is far more impressed with his own cognitive capabilities than is justified. He reminds me of what I would be like if I were real smart.

However, I find him an arrogant, intolerant, intolerable asshole who is far more impressed with his own cognitive capabilities than is justified. He reminds me of what I would be like if I were real smart.

ROFLMAO!

I admire a man who's in touch with his insane megalomaniacal side. That inner child stuff is for wimps.

I have close relatives in Kansas. I think they're fine folks, and I don't appreciate them being characterized as yokels. Dawkins probably does have an over-inflated ego, and he very well may be a big asshole. He wouldn't be the first scientist to be lacking in the personality department.