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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
I may get banned for saying this, but I've never understood the near-idolatrous veneration with which many of my secular and rationalist colleagues regard Richard Dawkins. I find the man preachy, intolerant, mean-spirited and aggressively evangelistic; as simplistic and blase about nonscience as many on the nonscience front are about science.
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For what it's worth, I agree with you; I think he's only hurting science. And this doesn't help, really, as it's easily mockable. Especially that prize; wouldn't the kid rather have a ten-pound note they can spend and an autographed copy of On the Origin of Species or something?
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