Dawkins strikes me as somebody frantically clutching in the dark to make his evolution beliefs hold together.
His book "Climbing Mount Improbable" thoroughly discredits him in my eyes, because he makes the most outrageous statements. For example here's his explanation of how the eye developed - "It was not hard for a lump of transparent jelly to spontaneously form"..
No disrespect to him but I think he's so obsessed in pushing his absurd guesses that its driven him slightly neurotic, it shows in his fretful manner and body language, the dead eyes etc..
I hear he now refuses to shake hands with anybody who disagrees with his ideas.
I had a brief correspondence with him some years ago and he began by being slightly rude, but I told him "I believe God wrote the Evolution Program and then snapped his fingers to start it, THAT was the Big Bang", and after that Dawkins became less hostile towards me. |