I hadn’t heard there was a thing about a tweet of Dawkins’s (another one? yes another one). Now I have, courtesy of Fidalgo’s Daily Morning Heresy. There was a thing, and as a result Dawkins wrote a piece saying he said it wrong. First he gives the background. Yesterday, on Twitter, I wrote of the …
Tag Archive: Richard Dawkins
Aug 14 2012
Atoms in motion, or just atoms in motion?
Now it’s Dawkins’s turn to be called a bully for no real reason. This time it’s an Australian theologian. His argument reminds me of the claim of “Froborr” last winter that Greta Christina’s aspiration for a world where religion no longer exists is “evil in one of its purest forms,” although Neil Ormerod is much less …
Feb 24 2012
Guest post by Musical Atheist on Richard Dawkins
After the torrent of spiteful dreck we’ve seen directed at Richard Dawkins lately, the comment by Musical Atheist came as a blast of cold fresh air in a stuffy room. Therefore, I’m putting it up on the main page. Musical Atheist says: February 24, 2012 at 12:03 am (Edit) I don’t like my own country …
Feb 23 2012
Shall I compare thee to a spotty adolescent
Well at least Amol Rajan gets it. Proof, if proof were needed, that “militant secularism” isn’t having such a great time of it in modern Britain has been in plentiful supply over the past week, during which there has been a sustained and vicious assault in our media on one of our most distinguished academics. …
Feb 20 2012
Up for a prize
Good morning girls and boys, it’s time for Monday’s entries in the “What Week-old Dead Fish Can We Throw at Richard Dawkins Today?” contest. A big round of applause for Mary Ann Sieghart at The Independent, who wastes no time but gets to the vulgar abuse right out of the gate. The Church of England couldn’t …
Feb 19 2012
And now for some good Twitter jokes
Martin Robbins@mjrobbins And here is The Telegraph’s Charles Moore in 2005 attacking Blair for apologizing for slavery http://tgr.ph/AeDOiu plus So according to the Telegraph, you shouldn’t hold guilt for your ancestors’ actions, unless you’re Richard Dawkins. Neat. David Aaronovitch@DAaronovitch The Telegraph attack on Dawkins for having slave-trading forebears two centuries back, is wonderfully bizarre. Mad, …
Feb 19 2012
Look out, he’s got a whip
And last item on your exciting breakfast menu, all items with complimentary orange slice and sprig of mint, the Daily Mail on Dawkins as sekrit descendant of slaveowners. Never mind, don’t get excited, it’s just the Telegraph article, reported. It does add one stupidity of its own though – Equality groups are now calling on …
Feb 19 2012
Argumentum ad haircut
There’s a separate, unrelated hit piece on Dawkins in the Sunday Times, which I haven’t yet read because of the paywall, but a comment at RDF quotes from it, and that’s quite informative by itself. I’ve just been reading an article in today’s (19/02/12) Sunday Times By Camilla Long. It’s the front page of the …
Feb 19 2012
The disgraceful Telegraph article on Dawkins
The Telegraph hit piece on Dawkins is out (as many of you already know; it’s nearly 5 in the afternoon in the UK, while it’s only a fresh-faced nearly 9 in the morning here on the west coast of the US). It’s even worse than I expected it to be, and that’s saying something. It’s …
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