[Dumb_Ox]

Jim Robinson has stated many times that evolution threads are contrary to FR's mission

If the author is such a nihilist, doesn't this thread function like posting excerpts from the Communist manifesto or a NY Times editorial? Dawkinsian nihilism certainly has its admirers, and hence political consequences. Besides, the author dabbles in Education policy, obviously of conservative interest. I very much sympathize with JimRob's desire to avoid site-clogging Crevo wars, but at the same time we can't easily ignore the 99lb Bonobos--they can vote in their philosophy just like conservatives can.

[John Locke]

Richard Dawkins is not even close to being a "nihilist", as is abundantly clear from his essays, collected in the book Unweaving the Rainbow. And he does not "dabble" in education, he is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, at Oxford University.

He is a first-rate scientist, a fine writer, and in public debate unfailingly courteous. In contrast to the typical Creationist.