Thin Skinned Richard Dawkins Can't Take a Joke
Ha! I had some fun at the expense of Dr. Richard "a free thinking oasis" Dawkins the other day, accusing him here at SHS of being a Raelian because he states in Expelled that it is an "intriguing possibility" that life here was seeded by space aliens.
Well, today Dawkins had a tantrum in the LA Times about some of the flack he has been receiving--and get the last paragraph:
Everybody understood that this was an argument against group selection. Nobody twisted it to trumpet to the world, "See? Maynard Smith believes in Group Selection after all, and he thinks it happens in Haystacks, ho ho ho!" Creationists, by contrast, never miss a trick. When I have raised the science-fiction olive branch to try to argue against them, they have twisted it--most recently in a movie scheduled to open this week--in order to proclaim loudly, "Dawkins believes in intelligent design after all." Or "Dawkins believes in little green men in flying saucers." Or "Dawkins is a Raelian." It's called "lying for Jesus," and they are completely shameless.Touchy, touchy. Poor baby can't take a little ribbing. I guess that happens when you think your gray matter is superior to everybody else's. Or to put it another way, Dawkins can dish it out in spades, but he sure can't take it. Ho ho.
Labels: Richart Dawkins. Thin Skinned
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 12:14 PM
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Have you seen the "Much much smarter than you" rap video poking fun at Dawkins? It's very clever and pretty hilarious in its own weird, rap sort of way. It has sort of bobble-head looking figures of Dawkins, PZ Myers, Eugenie Scott, Charles Darwin, and I forget who else "getting down" and dancing to a rap beat. It contains lines like "He's studied biology. He's much much smarter than you."
What's perhaps even funnier is that a lot of people at Dawkins's site think it's praising Dawkins instead of mocking him, when it's _transparently obvious_ that it's mocking him. One commentator over there even tried to tell him that it's the way the younger generation shows its admiration, because they don't want to look sycophantic. Another one said something like, "This has to be on our side, because creationists aren't smart enough to make something like this." I was nearly rolling about laughing while reading the comments.
So if someone does try a joke at their expense and they don't want to look like they can't take it, they interpret it as a compliment.
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