Richard Dawkins, I love, love LOVE you!!!!

[shayenne]

Oh boy, oh boy!!!

Dawkins wants to arrest the pope when he visits Britain.

*falls at Dawkins' feet and kisses them*

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[audabee]

Yesterday, the guy I work with asked me if I knew of Richard Dawkins. I replied that I wanted to have his baby. Well, long story short, he (my colleague) told me that Richard Dawkins had been interviewed by some fundie "scientist" (a contradiction in terms) and had been so overwhelmed by the creationist logic that he had been cornered into saying that it must've been aliens, not god, that had made everything. My friend told me he'd seen it and that it happened exactly that way. I said I didn't think so or that he was joking. No, my friend insisted, he'd seen the interview and that Dawkins knows that it was god. He then went on to explain how evolution was wrong and that it was impossible for anything other than an intelligent designer to have been responsible

[shayenne]

This is Brainiac who said this?!?!?!? Or someone else?

Nope, don't believe Dawkins said that for a nanosecond. Fundie article distorted it.

I'd love to hear how your engineer friend can explain how the world is 6000 years old without using the word "god".

[audabee]

Good heavens, no, not Brainiac. He's much too sensible.

No, my engineer friend, who is otherwise quite sensible, believes that the earth is 6000 years old, that things that supposedly happened 2000 years ago justify anything that Israel does now (documented happily in the "magic book"), that evolution is a "myth", the rapture will happen and that Richard Dawkins is the antichrist. I will admit that I was totally gobsmacked yesterday by his assertions.

[shayenne]

So glad it's not Brainiac!!!

How can otherwise sane people believe in this shite? (generally while banging on about the shiteiness of other people's magic books?)

Does your lunatic friend have pets? If so, you can sign him up for http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

(Actually, I think you and I should start the Aussie franchise. :)) Your friend could be our first customer.

[pw201]

Time for the Dawkins/Ted Haggard icon.

Dawkins was interviewed for the Expelled film. It's here, about 3 minutes in.

Stein asks how ID could turn out to be the answer to some questions in genetic or evolution. Dawkins says "it COULD come about in the following way", and goes into the panspermia stuff.

This then got turned into "Dawkins thinks aliens did it" by the creationists. Dawkins was not amused.

[shayenne]

Thanks for posting that.

I'm amused by the lengths the lunatics will go to, to keep reason out of their dodgy premieres!

[audabee]

Thanks for that. I suspected as much. Actually, my friend's conclusions (especially now that I've seen the actual video) remind me of this hilarious cartoon (check out the others, they're brilliant).