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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."
He is going to be holding a toilet plunger and be shouting "Exterminate!! Exterminate the believer!!"
Dr Who: Richard, what are you doing with that fish, duct tape and four lizard legs?
Dawkins: What, you think evolution *just happened*?
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There is no god, and Dawkins is his prophet.
This is NOT a signature.
We've had Kylie Minogue on that set, but it was Dawkins people were worshipping.
Kylie Minogue was on the set and people were chasing Richard Dawkins??? Wow, that show really IS for geeks.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Agree with the message above, priest/xaman/rabi is the only job where your boss doesn't exist.
Dr. Who: Where's Dr Watt? And I also need Dr. Hu right here real soon!
Dr. Watt: I'm here, and I can see Dr. Hu coming over there.
Dr. Hu: Whew, I really had to run fast! Hi, Dr. Watt, glad to see you. What's up, Dr. Who?
Dr. Who: I'll tell you in a minute, but first let me say how glad I am that this did not disintintegrate into some sophomoric cavalcade of misuderstood names.
Dr. Hu and Dr Watt: Say no more, we've all been there...
sig? Oh, that sig...
Doctor: I will defeat you Credulons!
Credulon leader: I have faith we will prevail!
Doctor: (smugly) Meet my secret weapon - the Professor.
Dawkins: Hello.
Credulons: No! The skepticism! I'm melting!
Dawkins: That was simple. Now, how does this TARDIS thing work, exactly?
Doctor: No! The skepticism! I'm melting!
Dawkins: Oops. Time for a new title.
Close Credits, including "Next Week on Professor Who..."
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Poseidon is great! - he totally whooped Odysseus's ass. None of this eternal torment after death rubbish, the wrath is here and now!
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
Have we ever done a poll on religious beliefs on Slashdot?
Cowboy Neil won.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
... and Who is this God Person Anyway?
I can picture that poll =]
Celing Cat
Basement Cat
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Discordian
Subgenius
Cowboy Neal
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
> the universe was created by a tea pot orbiting Venus
don't they call that Scientology?
Just so you'll know, "aig-" is the Greek stem for "goat", and "nos-" for "disease". An aignostic would be someone with goat disease.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Everybody has already been on South park
i got "do you know why jesus died on the cross?" shouted in my face.
<rik> i replied with "because he forgot his safe word?"
Guest appearances on South Park? Simpsons did it.
Actually, it doesn't.
It's a much more plausible that Dawkins is an extraterrestrial named Oolon Colluphid who stole her from Tom Baker at a cast party by saying, "Hey, doll, is this guy boring you? Why don't you talk to me? I'm from another planet."
I mean, it could have happened, and Douglas Adams could have been there to see it. They say that writers, after all, should write what they know, although I have to admit the exact opposite seems to work for Dan Brown. Still, by a kind of figure/ground reversal trick you can see the outlines of what Dan Brown knows in the text of The DaVinci Code, provided you have a magnifying glass handy.
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And my uncle Jim once met Richard Dawkins on a cruise.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Unless he has a banana in each ear, of course.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You may think you are a Christian, but you are clearly a heretic who preaches that some of your Bible's most clearly laid out laws can be ignored.
However, you sir, appear to be displaying the behavior we've come to expect from Christians! Congratulations on showing up your brother!
Tweet, tweet.
Now, if some kind of, I dunno, lemur came along and sexed up my girlfriend? That sounds like Zeus.
You can't take the sky from me...
Yeah, Asimov is no one-hit wonder like Douglas Adams. My favorite Asimov story is the one where two important but undeveloped male characters meet in a room and talk about the future, the challenges to their society and how times have changed, and exchange indistinguishable lines of dialogue for so long you forget which character is which. What was the title of that story again?
Yep, Asimov was no one-hit wonder.
And none of you can prove with 100% certainty that this didn't actually happen, so you must respect hey!'s beliefs and lobby for them to be taught in science class.
"God" is easier to spell.
Menus: Linux=function, Windows=vendor, OS X=as little as possible. Makes a statement, don't you think?