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[[Image:5712dawkins.jpg|thumb|251px|right|Within the [[evolution|evolutionary]] science community and the [[creation science]] community, [[Richard Dawkins]] has faced charges of engaging in [[pseudoscience]] and also has faced charges of committing elementary errors.<ref>http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges</ref><ref>http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php</ref> ]] | [[Image:5712dawkins.jpg|thumb|251px|right|Within the [[evolution|evolutionary]] science community and the [[creation science]] community, [[Richard Dawkins]] has faced charges of engaging in [[pseudoscience]] and also has faced charges of committing elementary errors.<ref>http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges</ref><ref>http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php</ref> ]] | ||
| − | Within the [[evolution|evolutionary]] science community and the [[creation science]] community, [[Richard Dawkins]] has faced charges of engaging in [[pseudoscience]] and also | + | Within the [[evolution|evolutionary]] science community and the [[creation science]] community, [[Richard Dawkins]] has faced charges of engaging in [[pseudoscience]] and has also faced charges of committing elementary errors.<ref>http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges</ref><ref>http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php</ref> |
The website [[True Free Thinker]] notes: | The website [[True Free Thinker]] notes: | ||
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Within the evolutionary science community and the creation science community, Richard Dawkins has faced charges of engaging in pseudoscience and has also faced charges of committing elementary errors.[3][4]
The website True Free Thinker notes:
| “ | Moreover, note that with regards to “assertions without adequate evidence” evolutionary biologist and geneticist, Prof. Richard Lewontin, referenced Carl Sagan’s list of the “best contemporary science-popularizers” which includes Richard Dawkins. These authors have, as Lewontin puts it, “put unsubstantiated assertions or counterfactual claims at the very center of the stories they have retailed in the market.” Lewontin specifically mentions “Dawkins’s vulgarizations of Darwinism” (find details here and here).
Even renowned evolutionary biologists H. Allen Orr, David Sloan Wilson, and Massimo Pigliucci have called into question the power that Dawkins once had as an intellectual, since he has made elementary errors in The God Delusion.[5] |
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As far as the social science of history, Richard Dawkins has engaged in historical revisionism when it comes to the mass murders committed by atheists.
Many of Richard Dawkins detractors are conservative Christians which is not surprising. The Wall Street Journal reported: "A comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians."[6] In the United States, CBS News reported in October of 2005 that the Americans most likely to believe only in the theory of evolution are liberals.[7]
See also
- Richard Dawkins, atheist atrocities, and historical revisionism
- Richard Dawkins on child molestation and so called "gentle pedophiles"
- Conservapedia:Richard Dawkins Project
- Evolution
- Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation
- Atheism and deception
- Causes of Atheism
- Superstition
References
- ↑ http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges
- ↑ http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php
- ↑ http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges
- ↑ http://creation.com/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/main.php
- ↑ http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/send-clowns-–-richard-dawkins-obliges
- ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml