I don't dispute much of his evolutionary theory, with the exception of his wholly unfounded and untestable claims about 'random chance.' Despite having said the following, when it suits him he declares that the world is full of evil, all of it found among people of faith.
"In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, p 133
Dawkins regularly makes claims about the universe that he can't prove, from memes to "blind pitiless indifference." As Marion Montgomery has said, "he presumes an absolute comprehension of the nature of man. Thus he becomes an excellent illustration of what I shall call the provincial mind. Alas, his is an intellectual malady conspicuous among our intelligentsia: the modernist mind presuming intellectual autonomy beyond limit."
We are not as smart and you and Dawkins and the other "provincial minds" on these threads think we are.
I must come to edsheppa's defense on that claim. I know that is very true of others, but my dealings with edsheppa do not have any evidence of such attitudes.