No, I live in the real world. Real life people aren't freaking out about it. He's just some random guy with zero connection to just about everyone. The only people on DCUM who care what this old white dude from the UK says are the believers. |
?? I respect the guy imensely. It's the religious people that don't. Let's be clear about what he was saying. He's drawing a comparison between our western civ. and Islam. |
bullsh*t. He's a respected evolutionary biologist. Thes ate just his opiniions based on facts and science. He's about all we have left since Hitchens passed. God bless you Richard Dawkins. Keep fighting the good fight. |
The absolute fury directed towards him in the online atheist communities seems to indicate otherwise, and I say that as an atheist. I don’t like the guy, but the unhinged way some online atheist communities react to statements from him that anyone rational can see are neutral and fact-based is quite something to see. |
sorry, "these are". |
I just don't think you're reading him right. He's saying the west (with it's Chiristian influence) is far preferable to Islam |
He said that, sure, but it was the implied endorsement of Christianity (not his imminent conversion!) that drove them bonkers. |
I am speaking about the astonishing online temper tantrums that were held in some atheist communities when Dawkins correctly noted that females produce macrogametes and males produce microgametes. |
Females? Or women? One is a biological definition appropriate for specific, genuine scientific discourse. The other is a social construct. Transphobes love to trot out scientific terms when they want to degrade the lived social experience of transgender individuals and restrict their rights. I suspect what you call "astonishing temper tantrums" were people speaking up for the civil rights of transgender individuals. But, you know, bigots are gonna bigot. Luckily younger generations are much more capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time and aren't as threatened by the idea of transgenderism as many older folks. |
The discussions are still available for the most part. Go read them and see who comes across as rational and science-based and who comes across as fundamentalist evangelicals, though I suspect you are unable to honest on that matter. In any event, it is always remarkable to me how adherents of the new gender ideology neo-religion quickly run to vicious ageism (and sexism and racism) when their religious beliefs are challenged by scientific fact. You are no different. You are a religious fundamentalist just like extremist religious fundamentalists around the world. And you are angry the rationalists of the world see it. |
He was a victim of a child molestor. Pedophilia is a mental disorder. |
A pedophile molests children. The two males being discussed by the forum- Dawkins and Russell Brand- were both abused by pedophiles. Dawkins by a teacher at his school and Brand by a tutor. |
If he’s that respected then you trust ALL of his opinions based on facts and science? |
Women = adult human female. Women are not a social construct. What a misogynistic thing to say. |
Women are not a social construct, well said. I can’t believe women have come this far to be attacked so egregiously and characterized so casually. It’s repulsive. REPULSIVE. REPULSIVE. |