How will Dawkins be remembered?

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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#21  Postby Mr P » Mar 23, 2010 5:04 am

Suppurating rats anus ;)

Hey don't shoot the messenger, Dawkins released that particular meme of his own free will without clearly indicating it was about Josh.

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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#22  Postby Oldskeptic » Mar 23, 2010 11:51 pm

I’ll remember Dawkins as a fairly young man that wrote a book that held my attention to the point of reading it through three times before I thought that I had a good grasp on what it meant and the implications. The book was The Selfish Gene, the year was 1977.
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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#23  Postby Mac_Guffin » Mar 23, 2010 11:57 pm

To be honest, I have no idea. If the world becomes more secular, he'll be remembered as a pioneer for the promotion of science, critical thinking, free thought, etc.

If problems get worse for us or if they remain the same, there will either be disagreement about his character like today, he'll fade into the background, or he'll be seen as a troublesomeassistant to Satan.
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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#24  Postby Lion IRC » Mar 24, 2010 12:37 am

Byron wrote:
...Unless he does something equally memorable before they're published...


A road to Damascus experience? An Epiphany maybe?

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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#25  Postby Animavore » Mar 24, 2010 12:39 am

Lion IRC wrote:
Byron wrote:
...Unless he does something equally memorable before they're published...


A road to Damascus experience? An Epiphany maybe?

Stranger things have happened.

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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#26  Postby james1v » Mar 24, 2010 12:41 am

Who? :scratch:
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Re: How will Dawkins be remembered?

#27  Postby whe » Mar 24, 2010 1:52 am

It's quite funny that he is known as Darwin's rottweiler..but all he has is a lap dog.
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