What do you think of Richard Dawkins?

I've had the honor of hearing Mr. Dawkins speak in person...and deal with religious people who consider him 'the devil'. No question about it...Dawkins is confrontational. He's rude.

He's in your face. He doesn't apologize. Neither does Ann Coulter (yet another person I've seen speak).

But you know what? At least Dawkins will allow a person who disagrees with him to present their views BEFORE attacking them. There is a mind behind his viewpoint....not the mindless screaming mean-mad emotionalism that is Ms.Coulter...and she's not above THREATENING people who disagree with her with violence, unlike Dawkins.

I have seen Mr. Dawkins stumped on a few occasions when debating with professional philosophers, people capable of presenting valid arguments to his rationalism. Most of the religious who attempt a serious dialogue with Dawkins fall down flat as Dawkins rips the floor out from under them...because they can't defend the concept of 'faith'. To quote Richard:“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ”And I'd have to say, in this statement I feel he's justified.Mr. Dawkins has an ego...and his books clearly declare it.

He's proud.Vain.Smug. And the people he puts on the defensive clearly can't defend their arguments against the framework he creates...and no wonder, since it's based on rational thought. He's not a hero, in my eyes.

He does verge on cult-like status among the atheists of the nation, just because he dared say what so many have thought for years. But he is a well educated, intelligent, well-spoken man with a gift for expression that transcends into the real world outside academia. And for that, he is recognized as a person of substance...unlike many in the religious realm.

He's a great scientist and someone who is trying his hardest to spread the meme of rationality. Humanity will look back on him and his ilk in a few hundred years and wish they had paid him more heed. I don't idolize anybody, but I certainly respect him and what he is trying to do.

He's a beacon of rationality and reason in an ocean of illogic and ''faith.

He was the first person I ever heard say that if an alternative medicine has been proven to work, it is no longer alternative medicine, it is just medicine.

I liked him in the show Hogan's Heroes. He did a good job hosting Family Feud too.

Dawkins is not leading an atheist cult by any means. Their is certainly no hypocrisy in educating people and teaching that their isn't a God. To call it as such is similar to saying that any non religious group of like minded thinkers is a cult (one may find examples to back up a cult-status of nonreligious people, but lets not go there) He is an asset to not simply A-theism, but Anti-theism.

Religious nations are pitted against one another and trying their best to fulfill the prophecies of revelation, and he is simply telling people "Wake up, there's no need to act ridiculous based on something that their is no proof even exists!

I just posted a hub giving my opinion of Dawkins after reading his book "The God Delusion".

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