Announcement about RDF Part 2.

[Matt H]

I certainly am not going to be getting rid of my copies of Richard's books. Richard's unfortunate stance on this issue has no bearing to his scientific contributions and his excellent work The God Delusion, which together with The End of Faith and God is Not Great, forms a seminal book trio for our times. They are all wake-up calls in the wake of 9/11, a call to rationality, a call it seems has been lost on Richard himself. Even geniuses are prone to personal failings, and I consider this to be a very big one. He hasn't demonstrated that he cares at all about the community he created. He has failed to address the issues put to him, instead choosing to pick out the comments about Josh he didn't like. The staff are still to receive an explanation or apology. How can you run a charity and treat your volunteers that way? How can you ask for donations and then dismiss the donators as vile and abusive?

The Richard Dawkins phase is over for me. Now I can get into conversations with atheists and have something to provide other than, "Oh, Richard Dawkins is just misunderstood."

[fredbear]

Goodness me, I've obviously deeply offended one of the finest evolutionary biologists of all time by comparing one of his employees to a suppurating rat's rectum. Perhaps the "rhino's twat" bit was a bit OTT? Maybe "rhino's ass" would have been more appropriate, more in keeping with the original metaphor.

In any case, mea culpa. I can only offer this sincere and heartfelt apology:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mI7ldxcio0&NR=1[/youtube]

oh lak, you may be a foul mouthed unemployed louche and inane old bugger but hey you are now a famous foul mouthed unemployed louche and inane old bugger.

[virphen]

Matt, although I certainly noticed your pigeon I can't recall seeing too much in your RDF posts I really agreed with - but I've been impressed with your contribution to this debate in various places .

[HughMcB]

I certainly am not going to be getting rid of my copies of Richard's books.

Sorry but Dawkins will forever be tainted in my view with an air of condescending hypocrisy.

As a scientist he's still one of the best, as a man he just fucking ain't.

My girlfriend (a Roman Catholic) is going to have a big fucking I TOLD YOU SO waiting for me...

[citruszest]

maybe the mods in here will let us start a poe or let a sock puppet in for Cali to debunk for a laugh? it might cheer everyone up......

[Weaver]

maybe the mods in here will let us start a poe or let a sock puppet in for Cali to debunk for a laugh? it might cheer everyone up......

Hell, someone track down Byers and invite him over here - got to be good for a couple laught.

[Wiðercora]

What is now to be done about the proposed Book of RDF?

Apart from the drama, posts would have to be rewritten so that RD(F) cannot claim any copyrights.

I thought particularly insightful/sciencey posts were going to be collated into a single publication...how could RD claim copyrights, or infringement thereof, or whatever?

[laklak]

oh lak, you may be a foul mouthed unemployed louche and inane old bugger but hey you are now a famous foul mouthed unemployed louche and inane old bugger.

Aww, stop it fredbear. You know I'm a sucker for compliments.

maybe the mods in here will let us start a poe or let a sock puppet in for Cali to debunk for a laugh? it might cheer everyone up......

I'll start;

Hi! I'm a Christian and I have a question for you evolutionists: If we came from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?

[PsychoSerenity]

My bold.

It seems he either doesn't give a shit about the people that have been hurt by this - in which case I lose respect for him as a person - or he simply hasn't bothered to find out the truth of the matter, blindly accepting whatever Josh told him - in which case I lose respect for him as a scientist. Either way, it's a very disappointing response from him.

Blindly accepting whatever Josh told him = blindly accepting what preachers in pulpits say?

No.. I don't mean like that.. but he's either made his statement without properly looking into what happened or, as I said, and which sadly seems more likely, he simply doesn't give a shit.

[Wiðercora]

Hi! I'm a Christian and I have a question for you evolutionists: If we came from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?

And Why Are There No Transitional FossilsTM?

[M]

My bold.

It seems he either doesn't give a shit about the people that have been hurt by this - in which case I lose respect for him as a person - or he simply hasn't bothered to find out the truth of the matter, blindly accepting whatever Josh told him - in which case I lose respect for him as a scientist. Either way, it's a very disappointing response from him.

Blindly accepting whatever Josh told him = blindly accepting what preachers in pulpits say?

No.. I don't mean like that.. but he's either made his statement without properly looking into what happened or, as I said, and which sadly seems more likely, he simply doesn't give a shit.

Or c) he got exactly what he wanted, another purge of the foul mouthed.

[citruszest]

Hi! I'm a Christian and I have a question for you evolutionists: If we came from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?

And Why Are There No Transitional FossilsTM?

and its still only a feory

[laklak]

Life can't come from a jar of peanut butter.

[ozewiezeloose]

Hi! I'm a Christian and I have a question for you evolutionists: If we came from monkeys then why are monkeys still around?

And Why Are There No Transitional FossilsTM?

and its still only a feory

If evolution was true, we should find fosciles of animuls with bits and peaces all over the plaes. With bohns sticking out of their arses and three eyes on their d***.

Science hasn't thawt this thrue.

[Wiðercora]

This banana is perfectly formed to fit in the human hand, therefore (my) God.

QED.