Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who

Ravalox writes "In an interview with The Independent, current curator of the Doctor Who legacy Russell T. Davis announced that distinguished evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins would be making an appearance in the new season of Doctor Who. To quote Davies: 'People were falling at his feet ... We've had Kylie Minogue on that set, but it was Dawkins people were worshipping.' Dawkins is the author of many best-selling non-fiction books, from The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker to The God Delusion, and a renowned advocate of both Darwin's evolutionary theory and the merits of atheism."

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Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologist

[Anonymous Coward]

But he's only famous/infamous for his atheism, and he knows it. He certainly wouldn't be invited to be on "Dr. Who" if he wasn't an Atheist.
Ironically, atheism may have work out financially for him, but he sends the wrong evolutionary message by promoting it for society. Theists do better in society, so that's what he should remind people of, "survival of the fittest". Dawkins should promote theism, as those who embrace God are the fittest to survive in our society, due to social stigmatism on atheists..

ATHEISM IS OF THE DEVIL!

[Anonymous Coward]

Old Lucifer is cunning and crafty. The best trick he ever pulled on all of us was to convince us that he doesn't exist! DO NOT BE TAKEN IN BY HIM! These atheists are spewing lies! LIES!!

Re:Nonsense.

[UncleTogie]

Like the other poster said: Please just read The God Delusion, it explains all of this.

Read it. IMHO, Dawkins being belligerent and quoting other people doesn't make a very convincing set of arguments.

Re:Nonsense.

[Mikkeles]

'And in any event plenty of religious people will tell you they "feel" their god within themselves.'

It's probably gas from the sauerkraut and sausages that they had earlier.

Re:Dawkins and Bad Philosophy

[Hognoxious]

As a Philosophy undergrad, I find Dawkins pretty irritating.

That will all change once you get your degree; the hours, the nylon uniform and having to ask "do you want fries with that?" will teach you the true nature of suffering.

Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi

[Anonymous Coward]

For fuck sake mods, why does everyone who posts an interesting non-atheist point of view get moded into oblivion? Let me give you an example of flamebait, just for comparison:

The fucking twat moderators rely on groupthink for their moderating choices. They can't think for themselves and have knee-jerk reactions to anyone who mentions anything religion related, even if they aren't actually fucking advocating it.

Re:Dawkins may may a renowned evolutionary biologi

[ChromeAeonium]

Even Dawkins admits that, strictly speaking, he's an agnostic. Agnosticism is the belief that we don't have the means to find evidence for or against anything commonly labeled theistic. This is correct, we currently do not have the means. Dawkins preaches that there is nothing in the universe that is commonly described as theistic. Since he's trying to take it from a scientific standpoint, this is scientifically short-sighted, as he's making the claim that science won't progress to that point; luckily the philosophy and media-whoring (used mostly to peddle his latest book) came before science got involved. It doesn't sound like agnosticism to me.

Richard Dalek-ins

[Bushido Hacks]

"Creationist! Exterminate! Exterminate!"