Quote from: j0blo on August 04, 2012, 06:43 pmQuote from: Pandatum on August 04, 2012, 03:17 pmRichard Dawkins is... the other end of the spectrum. He's about as annoying as the Bible thumpers. I think he's right, I just don't like him.I feel the same way. I agree with a lot of what he has to say, but I can't stand his obnoxious personality. I've noticed here in the US, his biggest followers seems to be people who grew up in conservative evangelical homes, so the bible-thumping personality comes natural to them.I also strongly disagree with the fellow on page 1 who thinks that if you accept evolution, you need to have read Origin of Species. Origin of Species isn't like the bible of evolution - it's not scientific dogma, it isn't inerrant, and it doesn't reflect contemporary scientific understanding regarding evolution. One of the beautiful things about science is that it isn't static or dogmatic. The way science sees the world is always changing based on new information. If a scientist thinks a view commonly held by other scientists is wrong, he can conduct new experiments and new research, and if it contradicts the current understanding and is reproducible by other scientists, then that becomes the new scientific understanding. There is much more to evolution than Darwin.I didn't say it was the bible and everything else you said was a bunch of assumptions about the way I think. I know perfectly well how the Scientific Method works thank-you very much. I said you have got to read it or you have no street cred with me as somebody who understands evolution theory. It's possible you do, but it's much more likely you don't if you haven't read it. Much much more likely.If you are serious about anything, you go to the source. That is where the original revolution happened, you won't understand the real spirit of the thing until you do. That goes for Das Kapital, The Origin of Species, The Wealth of Nations and many other influential books like that.