[beckett]

Write what? Trash? Constant ridicule and insult? This writer would make a nice liberal.

In fact Dawkins is on the far leftwing in Britain. He recently (April 6) signed a declaration, along with several dozen other leftwing academics and "luminaries" (including rabid leftwing fanatic Harold Pinter), calling for a moratorium by the British and other European governments of awarding "grants and contracts" to Israel unless serious peace negotiations were opened along the lines of the "Saudi peace plan."

[John H K]

That you find quite a few more conservatives among creationists, on average, than the general population, and a few more left-wingers among evolutionists, on average, than the general population, isn't an embarassment for evolution, it's an embarassment for conservatism.

[edsheppa]

Beckett: If being enlightened means I have to cast my lot with a nasty, snotty, cynical, know-it-all, ad hominem attack artist par excellence like Dawkins,...

Beckett: In fact Dawkins is on the far leftwing in Britain. He recently (April 6) signed a declaration, along with several dozen other leftwing academics and "luminaries" (including rabid leftwing fanatic Harold Pinter), calling for a moratorium by the British and other European governments of awarding "grants and contracts" to Israel unless serious peace negotiations were opened along the lines of the "Saudi peace plan."

You do know your ad hominem.