Teh Stupidest question Dawkins has ever had? WTF?

[Rum]

Duh..

[Animavore]

It's his job to educate the public on the understanding of science. Nice to see he's earning his paycheque

[Drewish]

[PsychoSerenity]

Wow!

I'm genuinely impressed with Dawkins for even attempting to respond to that. It's just so much stupid, I wouldn't know where to begin.

[Tero]

Cecil Adams in Straight Dope once gave a very polite answer to "why are manhole covers round?"

[Mallardz]

I think it's a grand question...

[Blind groper]

The guy asking the question did not appear to understand anything about evolution - not even the basic concept. You would have to take him back to the most basic of ideas, and start him again from ground up. Even then, I suspect he would reject the beginnings, and continue to ask dopey questions.

The thing I wonder is if the guy was just plain stupid, or was refusing to learn. Some (most?) anti-evolutionists are like that. You cannot teach them even the most basic concepts, since they reject them and refuse to absorb any knowledge at all about the process.

[Tero]

It's like the Ray Comfort routine where the guy animal hangs around for millions of years because the female has not been invented.

[FBM]

Oh, boy. Who waters this guy twice a week?

[Tyrannical]

Didn't seem that dumb of a question.
Complex organs that develop must always give a competitive advantage at every stage of development or they would never have evolved under natural selection. His specific example of taking a leak was just a WTF.

[Pappa]

Didn't seem that dumb of a question.
Complex organs that develop must always give a competitive advantage at every stage of development or they would never have evolved under natural selection. His specific example of taking a leak was just a WTF.

Not necessarily. As long as they don't put the organism at significant disadvantage they can stick around indefinitely.