/sci/ - Science & Math

I like his books, but he does like to go on off topic atheist rants.

well i hate him as a public figure. what science has he actually done again?

>>2642510

His older books? Because it seems to me that his more recent books are off topic atheist ranks.

he hasnt done much which is probably why he switched his career to a full time atheist preacher

Scientist =/= Mac user

Therefore, Dawkins is not a scientist.

>>2642524
yeah, selfish gene and ancestors tale are the only ones I have read.

>>2642535
i strongly suspected as much. now i can just say i hate that asshole without the clause of "as a public figure"

I don't see what the problem is with macs. Hell, doctors have even started using the ipad. Welcome to the 21st century guise.

attention whoring a lot...he's as much of a scientist as Stephen Hawking is...a spokesman at best

>>2642928
>implying doctors aren't idiots.

MACS = SCAM

IT JUST WORKS(tm)

>>2642501

From now own he shall be known as "Dick Cawkins"

Cuntfaced fuckhead.

>>2642935
at least he's promoting knowledge. the fuck have you done?

>>2642931
>implying stephen hawking isn't a genius scientist.

on topic, dawkins is a fine scientist, he may not be the best ever but he has probably contributed more than the average scientist. iirc he pioneered the idea of looking at evolution from a gene perspective.

>>2642935

I feel like a child for having laughed at "Dick Cawkins".

>>2642951

Not turning into a poncy english prick that doesn't actually do science but instead will write about errybody elses.

He's made a very useful contribution to evolutionary biology.

Why wouldn't I rate him as a good scientist?

>>2642966
so again he is promoting knowledge

only people who bash on macs are neckbeards with fucked up schemas. if you can afford it and don't mind the limitations of the OS, what's the big deal? they're good computers for many applications. oh, and i have a PC, but i have friends who have macbooks and love them so what's the big deal? get a life faggot, dawkins probably gets bank for using that computer, you probably get bank by cashing a welfare check and watching pr0n all day

Everyone in this thread is merely a science fan.

Pathetic.

>>2642935 Dick Cawkins

>>2643020

You're in this thread.

>>2643015
>buttmad

MACS = SCAM

>>2643030
No shit, Sherlock.

I love him as an attention whore. Always makes the agnostics cry.

>>2643031

For every one of those, there are a thousand of these.

As a scientist, he's definitely contributed more to his field than most biologists, but I don't think I'd consider him one of the most eminent scientists of his day.

He, more than anyone else, popularized the idea of the gene as the unit of selection, although he didn't invent the idea. His greatest original contribution is probably the extended phenotype -- which is an interesting idea, but I seems to have only made a modest impact on science.

His fame definitely derives more from his popularization of science and outspoken atheism, rather than his science. Much like Hawking's fame is mainly due to his popularization of science and his illness, rather than his theoretical work on black holes.

>>2643071
Yeah, because Macs are a pathetic niche.

>>2643101

PCs are for sheeple

>>2643157
Macs are for homosexual sheeple.

>>2643071
Wow, CRTs in April of 2007? What commie shithole computer lab is that?

>>2643181
I was using a CRT up until last week.

U jelly?

>>2643176

Considering the overpopulation problem, this is a compliment.

>>2643181

40x CD/DVD!

>>2643196
One of my monitors is still a CRT.

>>2643196
why would anyone be jealous of this
seriously

>>2643285
Because.

I am reading this thread on a CRT. I find it easier on my eyes.

Also, I like Richard Dawkins, but not as a scientist. I think anyone who is able to successfully convert people to atheism or better yet skepticism deserves high praise, even if it's only one person at a time. Good for him.

>>2643333
bullshit. he has done the exact opposite. he's converted skeptical scientists into religious followers of scientism

>>2643345
>he thinks "scientism" isn't just an excuse for gullible idiots to dismiss all criticism of their idiotic beliefs

No, he's too smug, and predisposed to attacking christians.
If anything I'd call him a faux intellectual, for believing for a second that atheism is in any way less logically flawed than theism.
He's also more or less just a hero to other pompus assholes.

>>2643519
>for believing for a second that atheism is in any way less logically flawed than theism.
Another one who has a warped definition of atheism.