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Why do many people here hate Richard Dawkins?

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It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
 
If you're talking about people who post in your threads about him, they don't hate Dawkins. They dislike your spamming of quotes by him and your single-minded hatred of Islam.
 
I don't think it is accurate to say that Richard Dawkins has had "a negative impact on nobody." If that were true then you wouldn't be getting the feeling that many people hate him with a vengence.
 
Humes fork said:
It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
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I don't hate him, I just think he's a pompous dick. I also don't think the spittle flecked rant about Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould in The Selfish Gene had a positive impact on them.
 
Humes fork said:
It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
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I don't hate the person, I do hate monomania - of all types.
 
Guybrush Threepwood said:
I don't hate him, I just think he's a pompous dick. I also don't think the spittle flecked rant about Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould in The Selfish Gene had a positive impact on them.
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Who cares? Gould was wrong ;)

Between convincing people that evolutionary psychology wasn't science and that religion and science operated in separate domains I'd say he deserved a good tongue lashing and had it coming :)

Honestly though, Humes Fork, these kinds of threads are super stupid and pointless, I suggest a new hobby. Perhaps, parasailing. Or Peruvian goat whistling.
 
The OP's question has occurred to me on many occasions too. Maybe I've just missed it, but in no TV, written or public appearance I've seen has Dawkins been the red faced,spittle spraying anti religious cult leader that he is often portrayed as. I also find it interesting that so many interviews with him start with an expression of the reporter's surprise that he doesn't meet that stereotype.
 
Theists can tolerate atheists who stick with agnosticism. When one is true to science and doesn't treat god beliefs with a double standard, theists don't like it and the atheists who think agnosticism is the only valid position, think one is not being true to science.

As soon as you point out absence of evidence is also not a argument against absence, feathers get ruffled.
 
I'm actually curious... What do you think I think of Dawkins, Humes? Am I a fan or a hater?
 
Humes fork said:
It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
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I don't think it is evident that "many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance".

But if it is true then could you at least post some samples of this evidence.

I seem to remember that you once accused me of hating you simply because I disagreed with you. If that is your standard for hatred, then the word "hatred" means something very different to what it conventionally means.

Also, "Dawkins says X therefore X must be true or a Good Thing" is an "argument" that most skeptics should be uncomfortable with. So if you quote one of his tweets and it doesn't stand up to scrutiny then don't be surprised if you and Dawkins gets called out on the tweet.
 
Humes fork said:
It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
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He pricks pompous pricks.
 
Well, apart from some 'simplistic'* political statements....
There was some netdrama a few years back :)


* The reason for this thread I would guess.


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His early stuff was v good – before harping on about 'the bleedin' obvious' became a major theme.
And as for the Gould issue, to say Dawkins was right is something of an understatement.
 
I don't know about this forum, but there is a subset of skeptics who don't like Dawkin's approach. And I don't think it's limited to the A+ers. There are god believing skeptics who don't like it when those particular beliefs of theirs are challenged. Sort of an attack the messenger so you don't have to address the message.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I don't know about this forum, but there is a subset of skeptics who don't like Dawkin's approach. And I don't think it's limited to the A+ers. There are god believing skeptics who don't like it when those particular beliefs of theirs are challenged. Sort of an attack the messenger so you don't have to address the message.
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That's the only two options? People who dislike Dawkins' approach are either A+ers or religious themselves? Which of these two categories does Neil DeGrasse Tyson fit in to?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I don't know about this forum, but there is a subset of skeptics who don't like Dawkin's approach. And I don't think it's limited to the A+ers. There are god believing skeptics who don't like it when those particular beliefs of theirs are challenged. Sort of an attack the messenger so you don't have to address the message.
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And very often attack the tone of the message rather than address it.
 
Humes fork said:
It is evident that many people here hate Richard Dawkins with a vengeance. But why? He is a promoter of science and has had a positive impact on many lives (and a negative impact on nobody). What's there to hate?
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I sure do not hate Richard Dawkins. In fact, I like Richard Dawkins and I have read some his books.

By the way, I do not hate anyone else either.
 
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