DH: Being unable/unwilling to make the distinction between Bull Connor's God of White Supremacy and Dr. King's God of Agapic Revolution should disqualify anyone from making any meaningful comments on the matterAs I said, to Dawkins, myself and many others, making a distinction between your two versi...

Mr. P., you better be careful. Homeland Security is watching...

Chapter 6 holds a Dawkins' gem: "'collateral damage', to use the charmingly Rumsfeldian phrase" (225). I laughed out loud, in public, when I read this. I know Rumsfeld and others from the current administration are easy targets, but to use "charmingly Rumsfeldian phrase" when ref...

Just wanted to note that Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker of the House today, as I'm sure all you U.S.ers know. I have no idea what kind of Speaker Pelosi will be. But I find it significant that, for the first time in U.S. history, a woman is two heartbeats away from the presidency. Another ment...

Are thursday night chats still on? No one showed tonight. Unless I did it wrong.

I am not a great reader of the sciences, so this is perhaps an idea that's been raised before. But I liked Dawkins' idea of natural selection being a "consciousness-raiser." He touches on the significance of consciousness-raising (although "herstory" and "niggardly" are...

Niall: The major problem that I have with Dawkins' approach is that his words never match his deeds. Well I wouldn't say "never." But, in the context of The God Delusion, largely yes. Consider, however, the significant contributions Dawkins has made to the public consumption of biology, ge...

Niall: When people say Protestant or Catholic when speaking about the North, what they usually mean is Unionist or Nationalist, quite the opposite of what Dawkins said.And to clarify further, Mr. P., Unionism and Nationalism did not arise from religious beliefs. Rather, Unionists tend to be Protesta...

Mr.P: I was considering talking to her manager, but I would have felt bad if she got canned...she cain't hep dat she ignant!Way to hold your tongue so some poor girl didn't get fired. (I doubt she would have gotten fired anyway. The manager would more likely have agreed with the comment than not.) I...

Asana, I continue to be dumbfounded at your willingness to make rash statements that exhibit your substantial lack of knowledge. When Franklin and the other signatories of the Declaration of Independence signed their names, they were essentially signing their own death warrants in the event they los...