(March 28, 2017 at 6:08 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Sam Harris kicks ass.
I like him on his criticism of Islam and Christianity, in that context yes, he does kick ass. But his Buddhism fetish irritates me.
Humans are not all good or all bad and there is no mandate to agree on everything all the time.
I also love Christopher Hitchens criticism of Mother Teresa but didn't agree with him on the Clintons, and while he was dead right his criticisms of Saddam and his rise to power, but Hitchens was a bit of a war hawk.
But to the posters in this thread who hate Dawkins, Dawkins is not pure evil one bit. All one can say about him is that you don't like his personality, but his contributions to science and advocacy for science education is a great contribution to humanity.
I said it before in my prior posts, I would not go out of my way to hang out with Dawkins, he is a bit of a stuffed shirt, but that does not negate his contributions, it only means I wouldn't want to hang out with him.
