Whats your opinion on Richard Dawkins?

Answer 1

It is said that everyone has its own path or destiny to take or be challenged upon by. Such, shall be the blessing and curse of individuality, thanks to the God or existence it-self.
This great man is of 66 years old, he has tirelessly contributed unmeasurable effort in reviewing the Unknown origion of species to his fellow human being. Although he happened to be and extremeist as an atheist, but that in my understanding does not make him a bad person at all.
Lets ask our-self, why does the world need atheists? In my konwledge atheists are needed in order to prevent religious leaders from being absolutely corrupted by absolute power. This world which ruled by man-kind needs balance to be a great place to live, and remakable individual like Richard Dawkins has lived, and will die to maintain the balance between power holders. In my conclusion, I say unto you in the name of Lord such person is simply a gift to our race like Plato from ancient Greece and Confucius from ancient China.

Please feel free to condamn me and Richard the great, but know this only the lord has the official right to judge one's worth. I am simply giving my opinion on such great person.

Lets be remind of his famous speech after 911: "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful"

Answer 2

I think he is brave and it is important for voices for reason and questioning theism to be a part of the dialog. When only one side is given no opposition it usually creates imbalances. He has had direct experience of religious figures telling lies to protect their agenda and I think that is in part what motivates him to spur people to not blindly believe things they are told. He had an impact on me when I read his "God Delusion" book. I had been calling myself an agnostic when forced to label myself. I realized though that I was only agnostic about the God's of religion in the way I am agnostic about planets made of cotton candy existing somewhere in the universe or as he put it teapots orbiting somewhere. While I don't say I can prove these things don't exist based on my experience and the evidence we have so far I don't believe that they do. I would feel silly saying I'm agnostic about teapots in space so why say I'm agnostic about deities.

Answer 3

A fine scientist and author who is unafraid to state the facts.

Watching the video of him getting abused and run off of Ted Haggard's church was amusing. Some good old fashioned American Christian Fundie Love.

Oh, a few weeks later, Haggard was outed.

Answer 4

Brilliant. He is a very smart man and his hope, in spite of his Darwinian attitude, is that we can make the world a safer and smarter place for our kind.
I am not at all sure that I share his faith in humanity.

Answer 5

I'm not personally familiar with him or his writings/speeches, but it sounds like he's a breath of fresh air in an age of zealotism (or at least in an age where zealots have a disproportionate say/level of influence).

Answer 6

It takes a lot of courage to say what he has said, and in turn, he has given lots of atheists courage enough to "come out".

Answer 7

He is a brilliant man.His social skills aren't the best

Answer 8

I'm a huge fan. He's a defender of reality against superstition and bullshit.

Answer 9

i do no longer understand him in my view, yet his writings on evolutionary biology are enticing and extremely enlightening. it somewhat is a shame that his detractors spend greater time on his atheism than on his technology.

Answer 10

I've read one of his books and I learned quite a bit.